What is it about?
Lung infections (pneumonia) acquired outside the hospital is a major cause of illness and death in both young children and the aged. Some measures like using clinical features and measuring blood levels of chemical compounds produced in the body have been employed to monitor the outcome in adult patients. Even though they were not initially applied in children with the illness, much progress has now been made in using similar measures to predict the outcome of the illness in them
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Why is it important?
Doctors treating children with lung infections can now begin to use these proven measures to predict the outcome of the illness in these patients
Perspectives
Children with lung infections should experience less death rates if appropriate and early intervention is made. Knowing how to monitor disease outcome can help the doctor to take preemptive steps aimed at improving survival rate in these patients
Dr samuel nkachukwu uwaezuoke
University of Nigeria
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This page is a summary of: Prognostic scores and biomarkers for pediatric community-acquired pneumonia: how far have we come?, Pediatric Health Medicine and Therapeutics, February 2017, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/phmt.s126001.
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