Paediatric intensive care in Harare
| Autor: | Janet M. Topley, Francis K. Nkrumah |
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| Rok vydání: | 1987 |
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Zimbabwe
medicine.medical_specialty Critical Care 030231 tropical medicine Pediatrics Sepsis 03 medical and health sciences Paediatric intensive care unit 0302 clinical medicine Catchment Area Health 030225 pediatrics medicine Humans Intensive care medicine Child Health Services Needs and Demand Guillain-Barre syndrome Respiratory tract infections Tetanus business.industry Third world Paediatric intensive care Infant Newborn Infant medicine.disease Intensive Care Units Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Health Services Research business |
| Zdroj: | Annals of tropical paediatrics. 7(4) |
| ISSN: | 0272-4936 |
| Popis: | SUMMARYA review of 1 year's experience in the paediatric intensive care unit in Harare is presented. Two hundred and eighty-six children were admitted and 66.4% survived. The major conditions for which the children were admitted were respiratory tract infections, surgical conditions, sepsis, tetanus, the Guillain Barre syndrome and acute renal failure. Sixty-nine per cent of the children lived within 50 km of the city of Harare and 31% came from more distant parts of the country. The problems of paediatric intensive care in Third World countries are discussed and we conclude that there is justification for such a facility in Zimbabwe. |
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