Management of the child with a serious infection or severe malnutrition :

Management of the child with a serious infection or severe malnutrition : guidelines for care at the first-referral level in developing countries. Integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) IMCI guidelines - Geneva : World Health Organization, 2000. - xiii, 162 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.

WHO document: WHO/FCH/CAH/00.1 - Dist: General - Original: Eng.

Includes index.

Emergency triage assessment and treatment -- Assessment and diagnosis -- Cough or difficult breathing -- Diarrhoea -- Fever -- Young infants -- Severe malnutrition -- Children with HIV/AIDS -- Supportive care -- Monitoring the child's progress -- Counselling and discharge from hospital -- [Appendices:] -- Practical procedures -- Drug dosages/regimens -- Formulas and recipes for severely malnourished children -- Assessing nutritional status and recovery -- Toys and play therapy.

"This manual is part of a series of documents and tools that support the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)."--Foreword.

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Communicable Diseases--therapy.
Child Nutrition Disorders--therapy.
Diarrhea, Infantile--therapy.
Respiratory Tract Infections--therapy.
Fever.
HIV Infections--therapy.
Delivery of Health Care, Integrated.
Developing Countries.
Infant.
Child.


Guideline.

RJ 370 / MAN 2000