Successful Outpatient Management of Children at a Secondary Care Hospital in Pakistan in a Dengue Fever Epidemic and Their Clinical Outcomes

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Flowchart of management and outcome of enrolled patients. Six patients were enrolled in the inpatient group on admission, and later on six patients from the outpatient group deteriorated and were shifted to the inpatient group. ¹All these children had severe dengue, according to WHO criteria at presentation. Of these, 2 (33.3%) had severe bleeding with hypotension and 4 (66.7%) had signs of fluid accumulation and shock.