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Free access to topics related to humanitarian care

Below is a collection of student-level and junior clinician-level articles relating to resuscitation, supportive care, emergency skills, trauma, and refugee health topics. You can access them now for free in the AMBOSS medical knowledge library.

Emergency Care

Airway management

Transfusion

Point-of-care ultrasound

Procedural sedation and analgesia

Pain management

Resuscitation

Oxygen therapy

Mechanical ventilation

Acute respiratory distress syndrome

Shock

Secondary brain injury and neuroprotective measures

Poisoning

Respiratory failure

Emergency Skills

Approach to the agitated or violent patient

Infection prevention and control

Local and regional anesthesia

Radiography

Computed tomography

Arterial blood gas analysis

Supportive Care

Dehydration and hypovolemia

Overview of palliative medicine

Antiemetics

Hypothermia and frostbite

Grief and end-of-life counseling

Trauma

Pneumothorax

Traumatic brain injury

Wound treatment

Disseminated intravascular coagulation

Pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade

Anticoagulant reversal

Subarachnoid hemorrhage

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Subdural hematoma

Elevated intracranial pressure and brain herniation

Military medicine

Management of trauma patients

Blunt trauma

Burns

Penetrating trauma

General principles of fractures

Compartment syndrome

Pelvic fracture

Vertebral fractures

Complete spinal cord injury

Genitourinary trauma

Death

Rhabdomyolysis and crush syndrome

Epidural hematoma

Refugee Health

Tuberculosis

Measles

Infectious gastroenteritis

Iron deficiency anemia

Mechanics of childbirth

Hepatitis A

Diarrhea

Childbirth

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Protein-energy malnutrition

Malaria

General parasitology

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Created and written by a team of dedicated physicians, AMBOSS is an interactive knowledge library of over 20,000 medical topics. With all the necessary resources in one place, AMBOSS delivers up-to-date medical knowledge to physicians, students and faculty around the world. We have an integrated app that allows you to take AMBOSS anywhere, both online and offline. 

What is the AMBOSS Humanitarian Support Initiative?

The goal of the AMBOSS Humanitarian Support Initiative is to equip medical professionals with free, high-quality medical knowledge for their humanitarian work around the world.

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Where can I find information for using in the field or in resource-poor settings?

World Health Organisation:

Resuscitation Area Designation Tool
Surgical care at the district hospital
Surgical safety checklist
Medical Emergency Checklist
Trauma Care Checklist
Basic Emergency Care (BEC): Approach to the acutely ill and injured
Tuberculosis care and control in refugee and displaced populations: an interagency field manual

Doctors Without Borders:
Clinical guidelines
Essential drugs
Essential obstetric and newborn care
Management of a cholera epidemic
Management of a measles epidemic
Public health engineering
Refugee health

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