| Title: |
Question 1 What is the best treatment option for empyema requiring drainage in children? |
| Authors: |
Course, Christopher William; Hanks, Ruth; Doull, Iolo |
| Publisher Information: |
BMJ Publishing Group |
| Publication Year: |
2017 |
| Collection: |
Cardiff University: ORCA (Online Research @ Cardiff) |
| Description: |
Scenario A 4-year-old girl attends with a 3-day history of cough, breathlessness and fever. She is started on antibiotics but fails to improve over the subsequent 48 hours. A chest X-ray and ultrasound of the thorax reveals a large, loculated pleural effusion amenable to drainage. Structured clinical question In managing children with a large empyema (patient), does a pleural drain with fibrinolytics or primary video-assisted thorascopic surgery (VATS) (intervention) result in better treatment outcome (outcome)? |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/142576/1/UPLOAD-THIS-ONE-ADC-Archimedes-Article-ChildhoodEmpyema---Dr-Chris-Course---Revisions-Copy.pdf; Course, Christopher William https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/view/cardiffauthors/A0298760.html, Hanks, Ruth and Doull, Iolo 2017. Question 1 What is the best treatment option for empyema requiring drainage in children? Archives of Disease in Childhood 102 (6) , pp. 588-590. 10.1136/archdischild-2017-312938 https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2017-312938 file https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/142576/1/UPLOAD-THIS-ONE-ADC-Archimedes-Article-ChildhoodEmpyema---Dr-Chris-Course---Revisions-Copy.pdf |
| DOI: |
10.1136/archdischild-2017-312938 |
| Availability: |
https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/142576/; https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2017-312938 |
| Rights: |
cc_by_nc |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.4B0C5178 |
| Database: |
BASE |