Boletín médico del Hospital Infantil de México
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With the use of oral rehydration, the need for the use of endovenous rehydration has decreased considerably. Albeit, the use is still necessary in severely dehydrated patients or when oral rehydration fails. Textbooks produced in developed countries recommend slow administration of fluids to correct dehydration in 12 to 24 hours. ⋯ It can be used in all patients, even newborns or malnourished. No laboratory tests are necessary. Only a small number of simple and readily available solutions are used to prepare the electrolyte mixtures.
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Tonsillar malignancies are frequently diagnosed as peritonsillar cellulitis or abscess until the tumor's growth is evident. The suspicion must arise when there is persistent and asymmetric tonsillar growth without fever. The presence of affected regional lymph nodes is of bad prognosis. A pediatric case is discussed, and recent reports are reviewed.
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Bol Med Hosp Infant Mex · Nov 1991
Review[The transfusion of blood and its derivatives in the neonate].
Blood and its products are valuable therapeutic resources for the pediatrician who care for newborns with severe illnesses. The use of blood and its products requires for the hospital personnel working at neonatal care units to be precise and up to date on the indications and complications of total blood, the globular package, albumin, plasma, the concentration of granulocytes, platelets and immunoglobulins for intravenous use. This review gathers, on the one hand, accumulated experiences by the members of the Commission of Blood and its Products from the Pediatric Hospital of the National Medical Center and on the other hand, a selection of the more important concepts which have been judged so by the authors and expressed in the current medical literature.
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Bol Med Hosp Infant Mex · Aug 1990
[Oral rehydration in newborns with dehydration caused by diarrhea].
The clinical experience obtained while treating 43 dehydrated newborns due to diarrhea with oral rehydration solution (ORS) using the formula recommended by the World Health Organization is reported. Of the 43 patients, 26 were severely dehydrated (greater than equal to 10% of weight recovery once rehydrated). The averaged time need to correct the dehydration was 4.7 +/- 2.7 hours, with a average intake of ORS of 26.5 +/- 7.5 mL/kg/hour. ⋯ Two of the patients were hospitalized for intravenous treatment, one was due to persistent vomiting during rehydration and probably due to sepsis, and the other due to necrosing enterocolitis. The oral rehydration therapy was successful in 95% of the newborns included in the study, which proved the method to be safe and adequate for the correction of dehydration due to diarrhea among these patients. Similar experiences are reported in Mexico as well as from other countries, which also suggest the use of this therapeutic procedure in children of this age.
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Bol Med Hosp Infant Mex · Jun 1990
Review[Water-electrolyte and acid-base disorders. VII. Metabolic alkalosis].
Metabolic alkalosis is defined as a primary increase in plasma bicarbonate concentration. As a consequence of this increase, systemic alkalemia and secondary hypercapnia develop. In most instances metabolic alkalosis arises from loss of acid through the kidney or gastrointestinal tract. ⋯ Those forms of alkalosis responsive to chloride salt administration (e.g., vomiting), are associated with extracellular fluid volume and chloride depletion. In contrast, alkalosis resistant to administration of chloride salt (e.g., primary aldosteronism), is usually associated with extracellular fluid volume expansion and a urine chloride above 20 mEq/L (mmol/L). Metabolic alkalosis; causes; diagnosis; clinical manifestations.