Open AccessClinical profile of bronchiolitis in infants younger than 90 days in Saudi Arabia
Author(s) -
Syed Amir Ahmad,
Quais Mujawar,
Mohammed A Al Othman,
Hashim Bin Salleh,
Mahmoud Abdelhadi Alsarfandi
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of emergencies, trauma and shock
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.313
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 0974-519X
pISSN - 0974-2700
DOI - 10.4103/0974-2700.125641
Subject(s) - bronchiolitis , medicine , pediatrics , retrospective cohort study , emergency department , disease , meningitis , respiratory system , psychiatry
Bronchiolitis is a self-limiting disease of children caused by viral infections of the small airways with a wide spectrum of illness severity. Search of the literature reveals a need for refinement of criteria for testing for concomitant severe bacterial infections as well as appropriate therapeutic interventions for patients <90-day-old diagnosed with clinical bronchiolitis. We believe that a better understanding of the disease spectrum will help optimize health-care delivery to these patients.