Pneumonia and Other Respiratory Infections

Pneumonia is a leading killer of children in developing countries and results in significant morbidity worldwide. This article reviews the management of pneumonia and its complications from the perspective of both developed and resource-poor settings. In addition, evidence-based management of other...

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Autores principales: Ranganathan, Sarath C., Sonnappa, Samatha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7111724/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19135585
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pcl.2008.10.005
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description Pneumonia is a leading killer of children in developing countries and results in significant morbidity worldwide. This article reviews the management of pneumonia and its complications from the perspective of both developed and resource-poor settings. In addition, evidence-based management of other respiratory infections, including tuberculosis, is discussed. Finally, the management of common complications of pneumonia is reviewed.
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spelling pubmed-71117242020-04-02 Pneumonia and Other Respiratory Infections Ranganathan, Sarath C. Sonnappa, Samatha Pediatr Clin North Am Article Pneumonia is a leading killer of children in developing countries and results in significant morbidity worldwide. This article reviews the management of pneumonia and its complications from the perspective of both developed and resource-poor settings. In addition, evidence-based management of other respiratory infections, including tuberculosis, is discussed. Finally, the management of common complications of pneumonia is reviewed. Elsevier Inc. 2009-02 2009-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7111724/ /pubmed/19135585 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pcl.2008.10.005 Text en Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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