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• United States Navy Hospital Corpsman
  ...ical or specialty technicians, medical administrative personnel and health care providers at medical treatment facilities. They also serve as battlefield c ...dical assistants were assigned at random out of the ship's company. Their primary duties were to keep the irons hot and buckets of sand at the ready for the
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• USS Chincoteague (AVP-24)
  On postwar occupation duty, ''Chincoteague'' sailed to the [[Far East]] to care for seaplanes at [[Okinawa]] and [[Tsingtao]], [[China]], between 18 Octobe ...red permanently from the Navy to the Coast Guard on 26 September 1966. Her primary duty was to patrol [[Ocean Weather Station|ocean stations]] in the [[North
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• USS Casco (AVP-12)
  ...nder to Fleet Air Wing Four (FAW-4). In May 1943 she moved to [[Attu]], to care for the seaplanes conducting [[antisubmarine]] patrol and search missions i ...er overhaul at Saipan, she arrived in [[Kerama Retto]] on 25 April 1945 to care not only for seaplanes, but also for a [[motor torpedo boat]] squadron, all
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• Acetylcysteine
  ...is also used post-operatively, as a diagnostic aid, and in [[tracheotomy]] care. It may be considered ineffective in [[cystic fibrosis]].<ref>Rossi S, edit ...I, ''et al.'' |title=N-acetylcysteine and contrast-induced nephropathy in primary angioplasty |journal=N. Engl. J. Med. |volume=354 |issue=26 |pages=2773–8
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• Naloxone
  ...| title = Reducing the health consequences of opioid addiction in primary care | journal = Am. J. Med. | volume = 126 | issue = 7 | pages = 565–71 |date
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• Sodium nitrite
  ...| first4 = R. G. | journal = American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | volume = 175 | issue = 8 | pages = 798}}</ref> ...concentrations, NOCs are likely to be carcinogenic in humans as well. The primary source of NOCs in the human diet is the nitrosation of secondary amines and
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• Ketamine
  ...ome sedative drug. Other uses include [[sedative|sedation]] in [[intensive care]], [[analgesia]] (particularly in emergency medicine), and treatment of [[b ...Drugs List]]", which is a list of minimum medical needs for a basic health care system.<ref name="essentialWHO">{{Cite web
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• Ciprofloxacin
  ...date= March 8, 1997 | doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(96)07585-X | title=Primary-care-based randomised placebo-controlled trial of antibiotic treatment in acute ...nolones toward eukaryotic cells. Identification of topoisomerase II as the primary cellular target for the quinolone CP-115,953 in yeast |journal=J. Biol. Che
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• Metformin
  ...ages=S13–61 |year=2009 |pmid=19118286 |doi=10.2337/dc09-S013 |url=http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/32/Supplement_1/S13.full}}</ref> Evidence is a ...e 2 diabetes |journal=Diabetes Care |volume=32 |pages=1620–5 |url=http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/32/9/1620.full |doi=10.2337/dc08-2175 |pmid=19
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• Activated carbon
  ...more than once. In rare situations activated charcoal is used in Intensive Care to filter out harmful drugs from the blood stream of poisoned patients. Act ...renal stones]]. A type of charcoal biscuit has also been marketed as a pet care product.
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• Aspirin
  ...author=Baigent C, Blackwell L, Collins R, ''et al.'' |title=Aspirin in the primary and secondary prevention of vascular disease: collaborative meta-analysis o ...al bleeding almost completely offset the benefits of aspirin. Thus, in the primary prevention trials aspirin did not change the overall mortality rate.<ref na
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• Essential medicines
  ...the [[World Health Organization]] are "those drugs that satisfy the health care needs of the majority of the population; they should therefore be available The core list presents a list of minimum medicine needs for a basic health care system, listing the most efficacious, safe and cost-effective medicines for
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• Atenolol
  ...ated-NICE-guideline-on-the-management-of-hypertension-in-adults-in-primary-care/ | date=2006-06-30 | publisher=[[National Institute for Health and Clinical
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• Ibuprofen
  ...Drugs List]]", which is a list of minimum medical needs for a basic health care system.<ref name="essentialWHO">{{Cite web ...ose ranges from absence of symptoms to fatal outcome in spite of intensive care treatment. Most symptoms are an excess of the pharmacological action of ibu
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• Epinephrine
  Adrenaline is synthesized via methylation of the primary distal amine of [[noradrenaline]] by [[phenylethanolamine N-methyltransfe ...els of 1000-10,000 ng/L. Parenteral administration of epinephrine to acute-care cardiac patients can produce plasma concentrations of 10,000 to 100,000 ng/
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• Zidovudine
  ...Drugs List]]", which is a list of minimum medical needs for a basic health care system.<ref name="essentialWHO">{{cite web During the period from 1994 to 1999 when this was the primary form of prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission, AZT prophylaxis pre
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• Morphine
  *for [[palliative care]] (i.e., to alleviate pain without curing the underlying reason for it, usu ...n the life expectancy was lower. Some users of opioids both under medical care and unsupervised may look younger after several years of use on account of
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• Paracetamol
  ...nt of more severe pain such as post surgical pain and providing palliative care in advanced cancer patients.<ref>[http://www.sign.ac.uk/guidelines/fulltext ...wn tree snakes on Guam: evaluation of baits, snake residues, and potential primary and secondary hazards |journal=Environ Sci Technol |volume=36 |issue=17 |pa
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• Diazepam
  ...Drugs List]]", which is a list of minimum medical needs for a basic health care system.<ref name="essentialWHO">{{cite web | month = March | year = 2005 | ...Lader M, Tylee A, Donoghue J |title=Withdrawing benzodiazepines in primary care |journal=CNS Drugs |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=19–34 |year=2009 |pmid=1906
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• Cicuta
  ...t medicine are often required to halt seizure activity and further medical care including [[intubation]] and [[mechanical ventilation]] may be required. ...ate=2010-01-07}}</ref> [[Phylogenetics|Phylogenetic]] analysis using the [[primary structure|sequences]] of nuclear [[ribosomal DNA]] [[internal transcribed s
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