Phase III trials required to resolve clinical equipoise over optimal fluid management in children with severe malaria

PLoS Clinical Trials

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Maitland, Kathryn ^c   Akech, Samuel ^c   Gwer, Samson ^c   Idro, Richard ^c   Fegan, Greg ^c   Eziefula, Alice C ^c   Levin, Michael ^a   Newton, Charles R J C ^b  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; GELATIN SUCCINATE; HUMAN ALBUMIN; INFUSION FLUID; OXYGEN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BLOOD VOLUME; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEHYDRATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SAFETY; EARLY INTERVENTION; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; LETTER; LUNG EDEMA; MALARIA; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NEUROTOXICITY; PEDIATRICIAN; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 34249656762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15555887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pctr.0020002     Document Type: Letter

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