Can Clinical Symptoms or Signs Accurately Predict Hypoxemia in Children with Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infections?

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 129-135

  Lodha, Rakesh ^a   Bhadauria, Prateek Singh ^a   Kuttikat, Anoop Verghese ^a   Puranik, Madhavi ^a   Gupta, Saurabh ^a   Pandey, R M ^a   Kabra, S K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Acute lower respiratory tract infections; Hypoxemia; Pulse oximetry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; CYANOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PULSE OXIMETER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TACHYPNEA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANOXEMIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; ODDS RATIO; OXIMETRY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 1342290135     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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