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Central venous catheter use in severe malaria: time to reconsider the World Health Organization guidelines?
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BACKGROUND: To optimize the fluid status of adult patients with severe malaria, World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines recommend the insertion of a central venous catheter (CVC) and a target central venous pressure (CVP) of 0-5 cmH2O. However there are few data from clinical trials to support this recommendation. METHODS: Twenty-eight adult Indian and Bangladeshi patients admitted to the intensive care unit with severe falciparum malaria were enrolled in the study. All patients had a CVC ...
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- BioMed Central
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- Malaria Journal More from this journal
- Volume:
- 10
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 342
- Publication date:
- 2011-01-01
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1475-2875
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1475-2875
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English
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206068
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- 2011
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- © 2011 Hanson et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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