Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A dehydration scale should not be the only measure of dehydration in pediatric patients because these results ...

Wendy L. Woolley and John H. Burton, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albany Medical College, 43 New Scotland Avenue, MC 139 Albany, NY 12208, USA. E-Mail: Wendy L. Woolley - woollew@mail.amc.edu; ...

Introduction: Dehydration is an important complication for sick children. The Clinical Dehydration Scale for Children (CDSC) measures dehydration based on four clinical signs. Objective: Evaluate the ...

(HealthDay News) – A previously derived clinical dehydration scale (CDS) is characterized by moderate interobserver reliability and weak links with objective measures of disease severity for children ...

To accurately assess and diagnose this patient’s condition, the clinician needs to eliminate other possible diagnoses such as dehydration, sepsis, and pulmonary embolism. There is information to ...

1 Department of General Practice & Primary Care, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 2 Department of Paediatrics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 3 UCT/MRC Research Unit for ...

Dehydration is common in older people, leading to longer hospital stays and increased disability and mortality. Health professionals can diagnose water-loss dehydration by taking a blood sample and ...

Dehydration is a condition that results when the body loses more water than it takes in. This imbalance disrupts the usual levels of salts and sugars present in the blood, which can interfere with the ...

Acute gastroenteritis (AGE) in the pediatric population remains a significant cause of pediatric patient morbidity and mortality. For these patients, oral rehydration therapy is an intervention that ...

A man in his mid-60s with a history of diabetes, hypertension, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and lung cancer is transported from home to the emergency department (ED) after he experienced 3 ...