Inpatient management of children with severe acute malnutrition: a review of WHO guidelines

Inpatient management of children with severe acute malnutrition: a review of WHO guidelines

OBJECTIVE To understand how the World Health Organization's (WHO's) guidelines on the inpatient care of children with complicated severe acute malnutrition may be strengthened to improve outcomes. METHODS In December 2015, we searched Google scholar and WHO's website for WHO recommendations on severe acute malnutrition management and evaluated the history and cited evidence behind these recom...

Management of severe acute malnutrition in children.

Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is defined as a weight-for-height measurement of 70% or less below the median, or three SD or more below the mean National Centre for Health Statistics reference values, the presence of bilateral pitting oedema of nutritional origin, or a mid-upper-arm circumference of less than 110 mm in children age 1-5 years. 13 million children under age 5 years have SAM, and...

Management of children with severe acute malnutrition a national priority.

651 VOLUME 47__AUGUST 17, 2010 Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) among children below five years of age remains a major embarrassment, and impediment to optimal human capital development in India. The World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund proposed diagnostic criteria for severe acute malnutrition in children aged 6 to 60 months include any of the following: (i) weight...

Implementing WHO feeding guidelines for inpatient management of malnourished children.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of adopting WHO feeding guidelines on weight gain and case fatality rate in malnourished children. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional, observational study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Pediatrics, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, from 2009 to 2010. METHODOLOGY Patients above 6 months and less than 5 years of age with severe malnutrition...

Management of severe acute malnutrition.