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Lactate clearance as a prognostic marker of mortality in severely ill febrile children in East Africa
(BMC Medicine, 2018)
Background: Hyperlactataemia (HL) is a biomarker of disease severity that predicts mortality in patients with sepsis
and malaria. Lactate clearance (LC) during resuscitation has been shown to be a prognostic factor of ...
Mortality after Fluid Bolus in African Children with Severe Infection
(New England Journal of Medicine, 2011)
Background
The role of fluid resuscitation in the treatment of children with shock and lifethreatening
infections who live in resource-limited settings is not established.
Methods
We randomly assigned children with ...
Predicting mortality in sick African children: the FEAST Paediatric Emergency Triage (PET) Score
(BMC Medicine, 2015)
Background: Mortality in paediatric emergency care units in Africa often occurs within the first 24 h of admission
and remains high. Alongside effective triage systems, a practical clinical bedside risk score to identify ...
Exploring mechanisms of excess mortality with early fluid resuscitation: insights from the FEAST trial
(2013)
Background: Early rapid fluid resuscitation (boluses) in African children with severe febrile illnesses increases the
48-hour mortality by 3.3% compared with controls (no bolus). We explored the effect of boluses on 48-hour ...
HIV-free survival among breastfed infants born to HIV-positive women in northern Uganda: a facility-based retrospective study
(Pan African Medical Journal, 2020)
Introduction: the HIV-free survival rate is the gold-standard measure of the effectiveness of interventions towards prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in any setting. However, data on HIV-free survival among ...