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EPISODE · Jan 17, 2014 · 14 MIN

Why don’t WHO guidelines on fluid resuscitation in children include the FEAST trial results?

from Medicine and Science from The BMJ · host The BMJ

Read the article: http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.f7003 The 2013 World Health Organization guidelines continue to recommend rapid fluid resuscitation for children with shock, despite evidence from the FEAST trial that this can increase mortality. Katheryn Maitland, professor of tropical paediatric infectious disease at Imperial College London, who led the FEAST trial, joins us to discuss it.

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