Emergency triage assessment for hypoxaemia in neonates and young children in a Kenyan hospital: an observational study

• Main Authors: Michael K Mwaniki (Author), D James Nokes (Author), James Ignas (Author), Patrick Munywoki (Author), Mwanajuma Ngama (Author), Charles RJC Newton (Author), Kathryn Maitland (Author), James A Berkley (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2009-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: To describe the prevalence of hypoxaemia in children admitted to a hospital in Kenya for the purpose of identifying clinical signs of hypoxaemia for emergency triage assessment, and to test the hypothesis that such signs lead to correct identification of hypoxaemia in children, irrespecti...