On the basis of WHO severity criteria (22 ), 22 (39%) had severe malaria, and 34 (61%) had uncomplicated disease.
Depressive symptoms was first classified into 5 categories namely minimal, mild, moderate, moderately severe and severe depressive symptoms according to the PHQ-9 depression severity criteria.
Severity criteria included decreased consciousness (coma or severe prostration), convulsions, respiratory distress or acidotic breathing, shock, severe symptomatic anemia, hypoglycemia, hemoglobinuria, or severe jaundice.
However, several recent studies seem to highlight the potential limitations of severity criteria as currently conceived in predicting functioning and other important outcome variables.
This commentary discusses recent attempts to develop useful severity criteria to guide the use of ICU resources in patients with severe CAP.
A ganglion cyst will most likely be treated if pain severity criteria are met, but recurrence rate can be high.
Fig. 1 Severity criteria to compare hyperlactatemic patients without versus with a hypoperfusion context.
The most common reasons for ineligibility were not meeting pain location and severity criteria.
The parameters studied age, sex, city of origin, time of bite, time of management, initial first aid, time limit for admission to pediatric intensive care, and severity criteria.
We included 70 ICU admissions, 35 pre-protocol and 35 after protocol implementation, with similar distribution of severity criteria as well as reason for ICU admission.
Conclusion Guillain-Barré syndrome therefore a pediatric emergency that requires rapid diagnosis and immediate changes in severity criteria for the establishment of appropriate treatment.
