Treating the wrong children with fluids will cause harm: Response to 'mortality after fluid bolus in African children with severe infection'

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 905-906

  Southall, D P ^a   Samuels, M P ^b  

^a Maternal and Childhealth Advocacy International (MCAI)   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF NORTH MIDLANDS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EDITORIAL; FEVER; FLUID THERAPY; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; OXYGEN SATURATION; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETER; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFECTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; SHOCK;

EID: 80052829120     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2011-300436     Document Type: Editorial

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