Children's surgery cancelled due to malaria and anaemia.
At our hospital 461 children were admitted for elective orthopaedic and reconstructivesurgery between January and December 2003; 90 of these (19.5%) were positive for malaria, and 37 (8%) had haemoglobin levels below 8 g/dL. The mean delay between admission and operation was five days for patients w...
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| description | At our hospital 461 children were admitted for elective orthopaedic and reconstructivesurgery between January and December 2003; 90 of these (19.5%) were positive for malaria, and 37 (8%) had haemoglobin levels below 8 g/dL. The mean delay between admission and operation was five days for patients without anaemia or malaria, 7.17 days for patients with malaria,11.05 days for patients with anaemia and 13 days for patients with both anaemia and malaria. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:de397a7d-ae0e-489a-b418-f298ab480c342022-03-27T09:30:43ZChildren's surgery cancelled due to malaria and anaemia.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:de397a7d-ae0e-489a-b418-f298ab480c34EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2007Booker, SRCollins, CCover, JLavy, CBrueton, RAt our hospital 461 children were admitted for elective orthopaedic and reconstructivesurgery between January and December 2003; 90 of these (19.5%) were positive for malaria, and 37 (8%) had haemoglobin levels below 8 g/dL. The mean delay between admission and operation was five days for patients without anaemia or malaria, 7.17 days for patients with malaria,11.05 days for patients with anaemia and 13 days for patients with both anaemia and malaria. |
| spellingShingle | Booker, SR Collins, C Cover, J Lavy, C Brueton, R Children's surgery cancelled due to malaria and anaemia. |
| title | Children's surgery cancelled due to malaria and anaemia. |
| title_full | Children's surgery cancelled due to malaria and anaemia. |
| title_fullStr | Children's surgery cancelled due to malaria and anaemia. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Children's surgery cancelled due to malaria and anaemia. |
| title_short | Children's surgery cancelled due to malaria and anaemia. |
| title_sort | children s surgery cancelled due to malaria and anaemia |
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