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CHAPTERSECTION NO CHANGE
REQUIRED ALIGN WITH RECENT
WHO GUIDELINES NEW
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.
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ANNEX 2
List of PICO questions
CHAPTER SUB-CHAPTER
QUESTION
3. Problems of the neonate
and young infant
3.1 Routine care of the newborn at
delivery Among healthy newborn infants in low- and middle-
income countries P, does early skin-to-skin contact of the baby with the mother in the first hour of life
I compared with drying and wrapping C have an impact on neonatal mortality, hypothermia or initiation
exclusivity duration of breastfeeding O?
3.3 Routine care for all newborn
babies after delivery
For all neonates P, should vitamin K prophylaxis I be given for the prevention of vitamin K deficiency bleeding
O?
3.5 Management of the child with
perinatal asphyxia For neonates requiring prolonged resuscitation and
at risk of HIE P, should head or body cooling I be initiated to prevent death and sequelae O?
3.7 Serious bacterial infections
For young infants 0-2 months with suspected sepsis managed in health facilities P, should third generation
cephalosporin monotherapy I replace currently recommended ampicillin-gentamicin combination C
as first line empiric treatment for preventing death and sequelae O?
3.10 Babies with low birth weight
In low-birth-weightpre-term neonates in health facilities P, are plastic wraps or caps used immediately
after birth I more effective than conventional care C in preventing hypothermia O?
In low-birth-weightpre-term neonates in health facilities P, is skin to skin contact immediately after
birth I more effective than conventional care C in preventing hypothermia O?
In low-birth-weightpre-term neonates in health facilities P, is Kangaroo Mother Care I more effective
than conventional care C in reducing mortality andor morbidity O?
3.11 Necrotising enterocolitis
For young infants with suspected NEC P, what is the effectiveness of different parenteral antibiotics I, C in
preventing progression and sequelae O?
