Well attestedNamed from the place
Milwaukee protocol
noun · first attested 2004
Named for the hospital that saved an unvaccinated rabies patient in 2004.
An experimental rabies treatment combining an induced coma with antiviral drugs.
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Milwaukee
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Milwaukee protocol
Doctors in Milwaukee induced a coma in a teenage girl already showing rabies symptoms, and she survived, which had almost never happened before. Later attempts elsewhere nearly all failed, and many specialists now doubt the protocol deserves the credit.
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