Skin and mucosal conditions are extremely common in all children and adults in particular in HIV-infected adults and children and are one of the commonest daily management problems faced by health care workers caring for patients with HIV infection. As the CD4 count declines below 200 cells/mm3, the prev...
The revised guidelines present two major changes to existing guidelines: (A) there are now just 2 categories of pneumonia instead of 3 (“pneumonia” which is treated at home with oral amoxicillin and “severe pneumonia” which requires injectable antibiotics) and (B) oral amoxicillin replaces oral c...
"OBJECTIVE:
The aim was to formulate practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of congenital hypothyroidism (CH).
EVIDENCE:
A systematic literature search was conducted to identify key articles relating to the screening, diagnosis, and management of CH. The evidence-based guidelines were deve...
Hormônios Tireóideos/uso terapêutico,
Tiroxina/uso terapêutico,
Hipotireoidismo Congênito,
Relação Dose-Resposta a Droga,
Endocrinologia,
Triagem Neonatal,
Educação de Pacientes como Assunto,
Pediatria,
Índice de Gravidade de Doença,
Hipotireoidismo Congênito/diagnóstico,
Hipotireoidismo Congênito/tratamento farmacológico
Los objetivos de la Guía son: 1. Establecer recomendaciones basadas en las pruebas disponibles, para el tratamiento de inducción en el brote grave de colitis ulcerativa 2. Establecer recomendaciones para el tratamiento de inducción en el brote leve- moderado de colitis ulcerativa 3. Establecer recomen...
Dellinger, R. P;
Levy, M. M;
Rhodes, A;
Annane, D;
Gerlach, H;
Opal, S. M;
Sevransky, J. E;
Sprung, C. L;
Douglas, I. S;
Jaeschke, R;
Osborn, T. M;
Nunnally, M. E;
Townsend, S. R;
Reinhart, K;
Kleinpell, R. M;
Angus, D. C;
Deutschman, C. S;
Machado, F. R;
Rubenfeld, G. D;
Webb, S;
Beale, R. J;
Vincent, J. L;
Moreno, R.
Objective: To provide an update to the “Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines for Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock,” last published in 2008. Design: A consensus committee of 68 international experts representing 30 international organizations was convened. Nominal groups were assembled at ...
This guideline provides guidance on the principles and evidence-informed recommendations on the nutritional care and support for patients with tuberculosis. Undernutrition increases the risk of tuberculosis and in turn tuberculosis can lead to malnutrition. Undernutrition is therefore highly prevalent am...
These guidelines have been developed to support countries to relieve pain in their paediatric populations. They address persisting pain in children caused by conditions such as cancer, HIV/AIDS, sickle-cell disease, burns, trauma, and phantom limb pain. Recommendations, developed following a careful and ...
HIV infection can impair the nutritional status of infected children from early in life. Growth faltering and reduction in length and height often occurs even before opportunistic infections or other symptoms in almost all infected children. The content of these guidelines acknowledges that wasting and ...
