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Global Mass Gatherings: Implications and Opportunities for Global Health Security
2017
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
mental status is one of the most common presentations to medical services at these events. It is challenging to care for these potentially critically ill patients, in and out of a hospital environment. To date, best management practices remain unclear for this common and high-risk subset of the festival population. Methods: We present a case series of patients presenting to medical services with an altered mental status, attending a 15,000 attendee, multi-day, electronic dance music event. A
doi:10.1017/s1049023x17003697
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