IAP guidelines 2006 on hospital based management of severely malnourished children (adapted from the WHO guidelines)

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 443-461

  Bhatnagar, Shinjini ^a   Lodha, Rakesh ^a   Choudhury, Panna ^b   Sachdev, H P S ^c   Shah, Nitin ^d   Narayan, Sushma ^e   Wadhwa, Nitya ^a   Makhija, Preeti ^a   Kunnekel, Keya ^a   Ugra, Deepak ^d  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b LNJP Hospital   (India)

^c SITARAM BHARTIA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND RESEARCH   (India)

^d IAP 2006

^e Kasturba Hospital and Swami Dayanand Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CLOXACILLIN; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CAREGIVER; CATCH UP GROWTH; CHILD; DEHYDRATION; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FEEDING; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTHERMIA; INFECTION; MALNUTRITION; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REHYDRATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SENSORY STIMULATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WEIGHT GAIN; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CHILD; DEHYDRATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INDIA; INPATIENTS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 34347215076     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: 00196061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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