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13.17 Thresholds for giving oxygen
1. Studies with adequate power to better deine thresholds at high altitude e.g. randomised cohorts using diferent thresholds with follow-up
Clinical studies comparing outcomes when oxygen is given at diferent thresholds
Annexes
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ANNEX 1
Overview of the Pocket Book chapter update
CHAPTERSECTION NO CHANGE
REQUIRED ALIGN WITH RECENT
WHO GUIDELINES NEW
RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Triage and emergency conditions
1.1 Summary of steps ✔
1.2 Notes for the assessment of emergency and priority signs
✔ 1.3 Notes for giving emergency treatment
to the child with severe malnutrition ✔
1.4 Diagnostic considerations of children presenting with emergency conditions
✔ 1.5 Common poisoning
✔ 1.6 Snake bite
✔ 1.7 Scorpion sting
✔ 1.8 Other sources of envenoming
✔
2. Diagnostic approach to the sick child
All sub-chapters ✔
3. Problems of the neonate and young infant
3.1 Routine care of the newborn at delivery ✔
3.2 Neonatal resuscitation ✔
3.3 Routine care for all newborn babies after delivery
✔ 3.4 Prevention of neonatal infections
✔ 3.5 Management of the child with
perinatal asphyxia ✔
3.6 Danger signs in newborns and young infants
✔ 3.7 Serious bacterial infections
✔ 3.8 Meningitis
✔ 3.9 Supportive care for the sick neonate
✔ 3.10 Babies with low birth weight
✔ 3.11 Necrotising enterocolitis
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CHAPTERSECTION NO CHANGE
REQUIRED ALIGN WITH RECENT
WHO GUIDELINES NEW
RECOMMENDATIONS
3.12 Other common neonatal problems ✔
3.13 Babies of mothers with infections ✔
Drug doses of common drugs for neonates and LBW babies
✔
4. Cough or difficulty breathing
4.1 Child presenting with cough ✔
4.2 Pneumonia ✔
✔ 4.3 Cough or cold
✔ 4.4 Conditions presenting with wheeze
✔ 4.5 Conditions presenting with stridor
✔ 4.6 Conditions presenting with chronic
cough ✔
4.7 Pertussis ✔
4.8 Tuberculosis ✔
4.9 Foreign body inhalation ✔
4.10 Heart failure ✔
5. Diarrhoea
5.1 Child presenting with diarrhoea ✔
5.2 Acute diarrhoea 5.3 Persistent diarrhoea
✔ 5.4 Dysentery
✔ ✔
6. Fever
6.1 Child presenting with fever ✔
6.2 Malaria ✔
6.3 Meningitis ✔
6.4 Measles ✔
6.5 Septicaemia ✔
6.6 Typhoid fever ✔
6.7 Ear infections ✔
6.8 Urinary tract infections ✔
6.9 Septic arthritis or osteomyelitis ✔
6.10 Dengue ✔
7. Severe malnutrition
7.1 Diagnosis ✔
7.2 Initial assessment of the severely malnourished child
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RECOMMENDATIONS
7.3 Organization of care ✔
7.4 General treatment ✔
7.5 Treatment of associated conditions ✔
7.6 Discharge and follow-up ✔
7.7 Monitoring the quality of care ✔
8. Children with HIVAIDS
All sub-chapters ✔
9. Common surgical conditions
All sub-chapters ✔
10. Supportive care
10.1 Nutritional management ✔
10.2 Fluid management ✔
10.3 Management of fever ✔
10.4 Pain control ✔
10.5 Management of anaemia ✔
10.6 Blood transfusion ✔
10.7 Oxygen therapy ✔
10.8 Toys and play therapy ✔
11. Monitoring the child’s progress
All sub-chapters ✔
12. Counselling and discharge from hospital
All sub-chapters ✔
Appendices
1. Practical procedures ✔
2. Drug dosagesregimens ✔
3. Equipment size for children ✔
4. Intravenous fluids ✔
5. Assessing nutritional status ✔
6. Job aids and charts ✔
Represents sections where no or editorial changes are expected to be made in the pocket book. Represents sections where changes will be made to align with new recommendations
guidelines already approved through GRC Represents sections where evidence was reviewed and recommendations made by the expert
panel meeting in February 2011 are provided in this publication.
