Hypoxemia predicts death from severe falciparum malaria among children under 5 years of age in Nigeria: The need for pulse oximetry in case management

African Health Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 397-407

  Adebola, Orimadegun ^a   Babatunde, Ogunbosi ^a   Bose, Orimadegun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Hypoxaemia; Oxygen saturation; Severe malaria; Under 5 mortality

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CASE MANAGEMENT; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOXEMIA; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MORTALITY; NIGERIA; OXYGEN SATURATION; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE OXIMETRY; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; UREMIA; WASTING SYNDROME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ANOXIA; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; NEWBORN; PARASITOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ANOXIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84902329152     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/ahs.v14i2.16     Document Type: Article

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