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Environmental conditions
HOST FACTORS
Age
Smoking
Host ability to transmit infection
Nutritional status
Previous or concurrent infection with
other pathogens
Underlying clinical conditions
The presence of atopy
Genetic factors
patients with asthma, cystic fibrosis,
bronchopulmonary dysplasia and children with
selective immunodeficiencies, congenital heart
disease are more susceptible to get the
infections.
5 STEPS TO FULL
CONSULTATION
Persistent Infections
Birth defects
Hearth disease
Neonatal hypoxia
3.- TREATMENT
Without Pneumonia
evaluating at 72 hours.
Whitout pneumonia but with
poor prognosis data evaluate
in 24-48 hours
With pneumonia evaluate in
12 hours
TREATMENT
PLAN A
General Treatment:
Increace
PLAN A
Specific treatment:
Most
Plan B
General treatment
Specific Treatment:
Child with Polypnea with out breathing difficulty.
Can have an ambulatory antibiotic therapy.
Start
Fever
and pain.
wheezing: Salbutamol (Inhaled) 2 shots, 0.02
mcg/dose. Every 20 min 3 doses.
PLAN C
Child with signs of breathing difficulty. Refer to
hospital.
Start with:
Oxigen
(if avaible)
Newborn: 0.5L/min
Infant: 2-3L/min
Fever