Resultados: 14

    Strategies to reduce curative antibiotic therapy in intensive care units (adult and paediatric)

    Intensive care med; 41 (7), 2015
    Emerging resistance to antibiotics shows no signs of decline. At the same time, few new antibacterials are being discovered. There is a worldwide recognition regarding the danger of this situation. The urgency of the situation and the conviction that practices should change led the Société de Réanimat...

    Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) Clinical Guideline #8: the fetus at risk for anemia: diagnosis and management

    Am. j. obstet. gynecol ; 212 (6), 2015
    OBJECTIVE: We sought to provide evidence-based guidelines for the diagnosis and management of fetal anemia. METHODS: A systematic literature review was performed using MEDLINE, PubMed, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library. The search was restricted to English-language articles published from 1966 through May...

    Guideline: managing possible serious bacterial infection in young infants when referral is not feasible

    Infections are responsible for about one fifth of the world’s annual 2.7 million neonatal deaths. In South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa about one quarter of all neonatal deaths are due to infections. Many sick infants only have non-specific signs, and thus are not recognized to have infection. Even when...

    Diagnóstico, tratamiento y rehabilitación de craneosinostosis no sindrómica en los tres niveles de atención

    Esta guía aborda aspectos relacionados con el diagnóstico, el tratamiento y la rehabilitación de la craneosinostosis no sindrómica en los tres niveles de atención...

    Guía de Práctica Clínica para la detección temprana, atención integral, seguimiento y rehabilitación de pacientes con diagnóstico de distrofia muscular de Duchenne, Becker y Distrofia Miotónica

    Hacer recomendaciones basadas en la mejor evidencia disponible para el diagnóstico clínico y paraclínico de las Distrofias Musculares. Hacer recomendaciones basadas en la mejor evidencia disponible para el tratamiento y rehabilitación de las personas con Distrofia Muscular. Hacer recomendaciones basa...

    Guideline: sugars intake for adults and children

    The objective of this guideline is to provide recommendations on the intake of free sugars to reduce the risk of NCDs in adults and children, with a particular focus on the prevention and control of unhealthy weight gain and dental caries. The recommendations in this guideline can be used by policy-make...

    Guideline on when to start antiretroviral therapy and on pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV

    This early-release guideline makes available two key recommendations that were developed during the revision process in 2015. First, antiretroviral therapy (ART) should be initiated in everyone living with HIV at any CD4 cell count. Second, the use of daily oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is recomme...

    WHO recommendations on interventions to improve preterm birth outcomes

    The primary audience for this guideline includes health-care professionals who are responsible for developing national and local health-care protocols and policies, as well as managers of maternal and child health programmes and policy-makers in all settings. The guideline will also be useful to those di...

    WHO recommendations on health promotion interventions for maternal and newborn health

    In 2003 WHO published "Working with individuals, families and communities to improve maternal and newborn health", known as the IFC Framework, that promotes integrating the health promotion approach set out in the Ottawa Charter into national maternal and newborn health strategies. More than 10 years aft...

    Guideline: optimal serum and red blood cell folate concentrations in women of reproductive age for prevention of neural tube defects

    This guideline provides global, evidence-informed recommendations on blood folate concentrations in women of reproductive age for the prevention of neural tube defects in populations. It aims to help Member States and their partners in their efforts to make informed decisions on the appropriate nutrition...