Clinical Study
Abnormal Blood Glucose as a Prognostic Factor for Adverse Clinical Outcome in Children Admitted to the Paediatric Emergency Unit at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana
Table 3
Categories of diagnosis in children presenting with acute medical conditions at PEU ( = 430).
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Malaria with acute disease: malaria with one of the following: septicaemia, enteric fever, meningitis, or pneumonia. Acute respiratory disease: acute asthma attack, pneumonia, or bronchiolitis. Assumed severe malaria: patient with acute illness treated as severe malaria but not malaria parasites on blood film and negative blood, urine, and/or cerebrospinal fluid cultures. These patients improved on an antimalaria treatment. Sickle cell disease (SCD) with acute disease: SCD with one of the following, severe malaria, severe anaemia, acute haemolysis, acute chest syndrome, septicaemia, and vasooclusive crisis. Others: urinary tract infection, tonsillitis, and otitis media. |