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Chapter 11 - The Child with a Cough and Concerning White Cell Count

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2021

By
Jo Dyer  and
Maja Pavcnik
Edited by
Shelley Riphagen  and
Sam Fosker
Shelley Riphagen
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London and South Thames Retrieval Service
Sam Fosker
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London
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Summary

A 4-week-old baby had been an inpatient for 3 days being treated for bronchiolitis. He was being managed on high flow nasal cannula (HFNC) with minimal oxygen requirement and a mild increase in work of breathing at rest. On the third day after an oral feed, he had marked intercostal recession, nasal flaring and tachypnoea so had been changed to nasogastric feeds.

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Cases in Paediatric Critical Care Transfer and Retrieval Medicine , pp. 59 - 64
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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