👉Biomarkers and Disease Severity in Children With Community-Acquired Pneumonia
📌WBC count, ANC, CRP, and procalcitonin are generally not useful to discriminate nonsevere from severe disease in children with CAP, although CRP and procalcitonin may have some utility in predicting the most severe outcomes.
🔗https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/145/6/e20193728
#pneumonia #crp #pct #respiration #aap #pulmonology #infections #pediatrics
📌WBC count, ANC, CRP, and procalcitonin are generally not useful to discriminate nonsevere from severe disease in children with CAP, although CRP and procalcitonin may have some utility in predicting the most severe outcomes.
🔗https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/145/6/e20193728
#pneumonia #crp #pct #respiration #aap #pulmonology #infections #pediatrics
👉Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Pediatrics: Adherence to Clinical Guidelines
📌 The choice of antibiotics was consistent with guidelines but treatment duration, indication and length of hospitalization still need to be improved.
🔗https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2020.00302/full
#pneumonia #frontiersin #antibiotics #guidelines #guide
📌 The choice of antibiotics was consistent with guidelines but treatment duration, indication and length of hospitalization still need to be improved.
🔗https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2020.00302/full
#pneumonia #frontiersin #antibiotics #guidelines #guide
👉Randomized Trial of Amoxicillin for Pneumonia in Pakistan
📌Among #children younger than 5 years of age with nonsevere #pneumonia, the frequency of treatment failure was higher in the placebo group than in the amoxicillin group, a difference that did not meet the noninferiority margin for placebo.
🔗https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1911998
📌Among #children younger than 5 years of age with nonsevere #pneumonia, the frequency of treatment failure was higher in the placebo group than in the amoxicillin group, a difference that did not meet the noninferiority margin for placebo.
🔗https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1911998