Rami Subhi

TL;DR: Pulse oximetry and oxygen concentrators can alleviate oxygen shortages, reduce mortality, and improve quality of care for children with pneumonia in developing countries, and compared favourably with that of other public-health interventions.

TL;DR: There is a need for increased awareness of the burden of hypoxaemia in childhood illness, mainly due to the low accuracy of clinical predictors and the limited availability of pulse oximetry for more accurate detection and oxygen for treatment.

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic review of the literature describing the aetiology of community-acquired neonatal and infant sepsis in developing countries was conducted using meta-analytical methods, and susceptibility was determined to the antibiotic combinations recommended by WHO: (1) benzylpenicillin/ampicillin and gentamicin, (2) chloramphenicol, and (3) third-generation cephalosporins.

TL;DR: There should be a concerted global effort to make pulse oximetry and a reliable oxygen source available in all health facilities where seriously ill children are managed, and as a part of the work towards achieving the Millennium Development Goal 4.

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic review of the literature addressing normal values of oxygen saturation in children aged 1 week to 12 years was carried out, and 14 studies were reviewed and analysed to produce prediction equations for estimating the expected mean SpO 2 in normal children, and the threshold SpO2 indicating hypoxaemia at various altitudes.