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Trevor Duke

Researcher at Royal Children's Hospital

Publications -  285
Citations -  7331

Trevor Duke is an academic researcher from Royal Children's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pneumonia & Health care. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 255 publications receiving 6249 citations. Previous affiliations of Trevor Duke include University of Utah & University of Melbourne.

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Improved oxygen systems for childhood pneumonia: a multihospital effectiveness study in Papua New Guinea.

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.
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Pneumonia in severely malnourished children in developing countries - mortality risk, aetiology and validity of WHO clinical signs: a systematic review

TL;DR: To quantify the degree by which moderate and severe degrees of malnutrition increase the mortality risk in pneumonia, and to evaluate the validity of WHO‐recommended clinical signs for the diagnosis of pneumonia in severely malnourished children.
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Reduction of paediatric in-patient cardiac arrest and death with a medical emergency team: preliminary results.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of a paediatric medical emergency team (MET) on cardiac arrest, mortality, and unplanned admission to intensive care in a pediatric tertiary care hospital was determined.
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The prevalence of hypoxaemia among ill children in developing countries: a systematic review

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.