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Wilderness: Sea Urchin Puncture (cont.)

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Author: Barbara Drobina, DO

Editor: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD

Previous contributing authors and editors: Author: Joseph Kaplan, MD, FACEP, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical Center of Central Georgia.

Editors: N Stuart Harris, MD, MFA, Staff Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; James Kimo Takayesu, MD, Staff Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital.

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