Adam C. Levine, Justin Glavis‐Bloom, Payal Modi, Sabiha Nasrin et al.
BACKGROUND: Dehydration due to diarrhoea is a leading cause of child death worldwide, yet no clinical tools for assessing dehydration have been validated in resource-limited settings. The Dehydration: Assessing Kids Accurately (DHAKA) score was derived for assessing dehydration in children with diar...
Payal Modi, Justin Glavis‐Bloom, Sabiha Nasrin, Allysia Guy et al.
INTRODUCTION: Although dehydration from diarrhea is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children under five, existing methods of assessing dehydration status in children have limited accuracy. OBJECTIVE: To assess the accuracy of point-of-care ultrasound measurement of the aorta-to-IVC rat...
Payal Modi, Sabiha Nasrin, Meagan Hawes, Justin Glavis‐Bloom et al.
Background Undernutrition contributes to 45% of all deaths in children Objective This study assessed the validity of different measures of undernutrition in children with diarrhea. Methods A prospective cohort study was conducted at an urban hospital in Bangladesh. Children Results Of the 721 patien...
Adam C. Levine, Justin Glavis‐Bloom, Payal Modi, Sabiha Nasrin et al.
INTRODUCTION: Diarrhea remains one of the most common and most deadly conditions affecting children worldwide. Accurately assessing dehydration status is critical to determining treatment course, yet no clinical diagnostic models for dehydration have been empirically derived and validated for use in...
Adam C. Levine, Justin Glavis‐Bloom, Payal Modi, Sabiha Nasrin et al.
Background Acute diarrhea remains both common and deadly in children worldwide. Proper treatment depends on accurately assessing dehydration status. Current World Health Organization ( WHO ) guidelines include an algorithm for classifying children as having no, some, or severe dehydration, which has...