Department of Paediatrics and Child Health: Recent submissions

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    • Mortality risk over time after early fluid resuscitation in African children 

      George, Elizabeth C.; Kiguli, Sarah; Olupot Olupot, Peter; Opoka, Robert O.; Engoru, Charles; Akech, Samuel O.; Nyeko, Richard; Mtove, George; Mpoya, Ayub; Thomason, Margaret J.; Crawley, Jane; Evans, Jennifer A.; Gibb, Diana M.; Babiker, Abdel G.; Maitland, Kathryn; Walker, A. Sarah (Clinical care, 2019)
      Background: African children hospitalised with severe febrile illness have a high risk of mortality. The Fluid Expansion As Supportive Therapy (FEAST) trial (ISCRTN 69856593) demonstrated increased mortality risk ...

    • Mortality after Fluid Bolus in African Children with Severe Infection 

      Maitland, Kathryn; Kiguli, Sarah; Opoka, Robert O.; Engoru, Charles; Olupot-Olupot, Peter; Akech, Samuel O.; Nyeko, Richard; Mtove, George; Reyburn, Hugh; Lang, Trudie; Brent, Bernadette; Evans, Jennifer A.; Tibenderana, James K.; Crawley, Jane; Russell, Elizabeth C.; Levin, Michael; Babiker, Abdel G.; Gibb, Diana M. (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 ...

    • Lactose intolerance among severely malnourished children with diarrhoea admitted to the nutrition unit, Mulago hospital, Uganda 

      Nyeko, Richard; Kalyesubula, Israel; Mworozi, Edison; Bachou, Hanifa (BMC Pediatrics, 2010)
      Background: Lactose intolerance is a common complication of diarrhoea in infants with malnutrition and a cause of treatment failure. A combination of nutritional injury and infectious insults in severe protein energy ...

    • Antibiotic prescription practices among prescribers for children under five at public health centers III and IV in Mbarara district 

      Okello, Nelson; Oloro, Joseph; Kyakwera, Catherine; Kumbakumba, Elias; Obua, Celestino (PLOS ONE, 2020)
      Introduction Rational use of medicines requires that patients receive medications appropriate to their clinical needs. Irrational prescription of antibiotics has been reported in many health systems across the world. ...