The management of community-acquired pneumonia in infants and children older than 3 months of age: clinical practice guidelines by the Pediatric Infectious …

JS Bradley, CL Byington, SS Shah… - Clinical infectious …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Evidenced-based guidelines for management of infants and children with community-
acquired pneumonia (CAP) were prepared by an expert panel comprising clinicians and …

Pneumonia in severely malnourished children in developing countries–mortality risk, aetiology and validity of WHO clinical signs: a systematic review

MJ Chisti, M Tebruegge, S La Vincente… - Tropical medicine & …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To quantify the degree by which moderate and severe degrees of malnutrition
increase the mortality risk in pneumonia, to identify potential differences in the aetiology of …

Clinical prediction model to aid emergency doctors managing febrile children at risk of serious bacterial infections: diagnostic study

RG Nijman, Y Vergouwe, M Thompson, M van Veen… - Bmj, 2013 - bmj.com
Objective To derive, cross validate, and externally validate a clinical prediction model that
assesses the risks of different serious bacterial infections in children with fever at the …

Lung ultrasound in community-acquired pneumonia and in interstitial lung diseases

A Reissig, R Copetti - Respiration, 2014 - karger.com
Lung ultrasound (LUS) is an accurate tool for the diagnosis and follow-up of pneumonia in
adults as well as in children. LUS is at least as accurate as chest radiography in diagnosing …

Prediction of pneumonia in a pediatric emergency department

MI Neuman, MC Monuteaux, KJ Scully… - Pediatrics, 2011 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVE: To study the association between historical and physical examination findings
and radiographic pneumonia in children who present with suspicion for pneumonia in the …

The balance between the serum levels of IL-6 and IL-10 cytokines discriminates mild and severe acute pneumonia

RCCM de Brito, N Lucena-Silva, LC Torres… - BMC pulmonary …, 2016 - Springer
Background To identify markers for earlier diagnosis of severe pneumonia, we assess the
correlation between serum cytokine profile of children with different pneumonia severity …

Point-of-care lung ultrasound in children with community acquired pneumonia

HL Yilmaz, AK Özkaya, SS Gökay, ÖT Kendir… - The American journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objectives To present lung ultrasound findings in children assessed with suspected
pneumonia in the emergency department and to show the benefit of lung ultrasound in …

Evaluation of child with fever without source: review of literature and update

R Arora, P Mahajan - Pediatric Clinics, 2013 - pediatric.theclinics.com
Fever is a common complaint in infants and children, and represents 10.5% to 25% of
pediatric emergency department (ED) visits. 1–3 Although most febrile children have self …

Clinical predictors of pneumonia among children with wheezing

B Mathews, S Shah, RH Cleveland, EY Lee… - …, 2009 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVE: The goal was to identify factors associated with radiographically confirmed
pneumonia among children with wheezing in the emergency department (ED) setting …

Pneumonia in the developed world

A Prayle, M Atkinson, A Smyth - Paediatric respiratory reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
In this paper, we review the literature on the management of pneumonia in the developed
world setting. Pneumonia is usually diagnosed on the basis of a cough, respiratory distress …