Journal article
Gastroenteritis rehydration of children with severe acute malnutrition (GASTROSAM): A phase II randomised controlled trial: Trial protocol
- Abstract:
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Background: Children hospitalised with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) are frequently complicated (>50%) by diarrhoea (≥3 watery stools/day) which is accompanied by poor outcomes. Rehydration guidelines for SAM are exceptionally conservative and controversial, based upon expert opinion. The guidelines only permit use of intravenous fluids for cases with advanced shock and exclusive use of low sodium intravenous and oral rehydration solutions (ORS) for fear of fluid and/or sod... Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- F1000Research Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Wellcome Open Research Journal website
- Volume:
- 6
- Article number:
- 160
- Publication date:
- 2021-06-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-06-15
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2398-502X
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1185616
- Local pid:
- pubs:1185616
- Deposit date:
- 2021-10-08
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- Copyright holder:
- Olupot-Olupot et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © 2021 Olupot-Olupot P et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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