Management of severe paediatric malaria in resource-limited settings

BMC Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Maitland, Kathryn ^a,b  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Africa; Bacterial Infection; Children; Clinical Trial; Malaria; Mortality; Supportive Care; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTESUNATE; DEFERIPRONE; DEFEROXAMINE; DEXAMETHASONE; LEVAMISOLE; MEFLOQUINE; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PLACEBO; QUININE; STEROID; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AFRICA; ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN MALARIA; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOGLOBINURIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; IRON CHELATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; NEUROIMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDIATRICS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DEVELOPING COUNTRY; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; QUININE;

EID: 84928794393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-014-0263-6     Document Type: Review

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