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Medical Foods and Infant Formulas
(Springer, 2020)
Medical foods are foods that are formulated specifically to help in the management of diseases with particular dietary needs hardly met singly by normal diet. They are taken under medical prescription or supervision. On ...
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 ...
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 ...