Browsing Research Articles by Author "George, Elizabeth C."

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    • Lactate clearance as a prognostic marker of mortality in severely ill febrile children in East Africa 

      Aramburo, A; Todd, Jim; George, Elizabeth C.; Kiguli, Sarah; Olupot-Olupot, Peter; Opoka, Robert O; Engoru, Charles; Akech, Samuel O; Nyeko, Richard; Mtove, George; Gibb, Diana M; Babiker, Abdel G; Maitland, Kathryn (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 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 ...

    • Predicting mortality in sick African children: the FEAST Paediatric Emergency Triage (PET) Score 

      George, Elizabeth C.; Walker, A. Sarah; Kiguli, Sarah; Olupot-Olupo, Peter; Opoka, Robert O.; Engoru, Charles; Akech, Samuel O.; Nyeko, Richard; Mtove, George; Reyburn, Hugh; Berkley, James A.; Mpoya, Ayub; Levin, Michael; Crawley, Jane; Gibb, Diana M.; Maitland, Kathryn; Babiker, Abdel G. (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 ...