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Appendix C: Alternative Treatment Regimens for Severe Malaria
Pages 155-156

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... INTRAMUSCULAR QUININE Loading Dose Quinine dihydrochloride is given intramuscularly at 20 mg salt/kg diluted to 60 mg/ml in normal saline. The dose should be split between two injection sites in the anterior thigh (not the buttocks)
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... Patients able to take oral medications can then be switched to an oral artemisinin drug at an appropriate dose or another antimalarial drug appropriate to the area (e.g., either sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine or mefloquine in areas where those drugs remain effective)
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