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  2. Necrotizing fasciitis - Wikipedia

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    Necrotizing fasciitis (NF), also known as flesh-eating disease, is an infection that kills the body's soft tissue. [3] It is a serious disease that begins and spreads quickly. [ 3 ] Symptoms include red or purple or black skin, swelling, severe pain, fever , and vomiting. [ 3 ]

  3. Abdominal thrusts - Wikipedia

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    The Heimlich Institute has stopped advocating on their website for the Heimlich maneuver to be used as a first aid measure for drowning victims. Heimlich's son, Peter M. Heimlich, alleges that in August 1974 his father published the first of a series of fraudulent case reports in order to promote the use of abdominal thrusts for near-drowning ...

  4. Gas gangrene - Wikipedia

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    Gas gangrene (also known as clostridial myonecrosis [1]) is a bacterial infection that produces tissue gas in gangrene. This deadly form of gangrene usually is caused by Clostridium perfringens bacteria. About 1,000 cases of gas gangrene are reported yearly in the United States. [2] Myonecrosis is a condition of necrotic damage, specific to ...

  5. Gangrene - Wikipedia

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    Gas gangrene is a bacterial infection that produces gas within tissues. It can be caused by Clostridium , most commonly alpha toxin -producing C. perfringens , or various nonclostridial species. [ 9 ] [ 19 ] Infection spreads rapidly as the gases produced by the bacteria expand and infiltrate healthy tissue in the vicinity.

  6. Woman, 33, thought her 'giant' leg was a knee sprain. It was ...

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    Diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, she reveals symptoms, including a swollen knee. Flesh-eating bacteria cause woman, 33, to go into sepsis. Diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, she reveals ...

  7. Florida father suffering from flesh-eating disease has over ...

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    A Florida father of two is fighting for his life after he contracted a flesh-eating disease from an unknown source, his family says. David Ireland, 50, began experiencing flu-like symptoms last ...

  8. Henry Heimlich - Wikipedia

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    Henry Judah Heimlich (February 3, 1920 – December 17, 2016) was an American thoracic surgeon and medical researcher. He is widely credited for the discovery of the Heimlich maneuver, [2] a technique of abdominal thrusts for stopping choking, [3] first described in 1974. [4]

  9. Category:Gangrene - Wikipedia

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    Gas gangrene (7 P) Pages in category "Gangrene" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... Necrotizing fasciitis; Noma (disease) P.