Why don’t WHO guidelines on fluid resuscitation in children include the FEAST trial results?
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Read the article: http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.f7003
The 2013 World Health Organization guidelines continue to recommend rapid fluid resuscitation for children with shock, despite evidence from the FEAST trial that this can increase mortality.
Katheryn Maitland, professor of tropical paediatric infectious disease at Imperial College London, who led the FEAST trial, joins us to discuss it.