These guidelines contain recommendations on the identification and management of substance use and substance use disorders for health care services which assist women who are pregnant, or have recently had a child, and who use alcohol or drugs or who have a substance use disorder. They have been develope...
In this second supplement (December 2014) to the 2013 consolidated guidelines on the use of antiretroviral drugs for treating and preventing HIV infection, recommendations from two guideline development processes are included: post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV; the use of co-trimoxazole prophylaxis for H...
These WHO guidelines provide recommendations for programmes as to how they can ensure that human rights are respected, protected and fulfilled, while services are scaled up to reduce unmet need for contraception. Both health data and international human rights laws and treaties were incorporated into the...
The proposed guideline aims to help Member States and their partners in their efforts to make informed decisions on the appropriate nutrition actions to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in particular, reduction of child mortality (MDG 4) and improvement of maternal health (MDG 5). It will...
Member States have requested guidance from WHO on the effects of late cord clamping for improving maternal and infant nutrition and health, as a public health strategy in support of their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, as well as the global targets set in the Comprehensive implement...
"OBJECTIVE:
The aim was to formulate practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of congenital hypothyroidism (CH).
EVIDENCE:
A systematic literature search was conducted to identify key articles relating to the screening, diagnosis, and management of CH. The evidence-based guidelines were deve...
Hormonas Tiroideas/uso terapéutico,
Tiroxina/uso terapéutico,
Hipotiroidismo Congénito,
Relación Dosis-Respuesta a Droga,
Endocrinología,
Tamizaje Neonatal,
Educación del Paciente como Asunto,
Pediatría,
Índice de Severidad de la Enfermedad,
Hipotiroidismo Congénito/diagnóstico,
Hipotiroidismo Congénito/tratamiento farmacológico
Choi, Won Suk;
Baek, Ji Hyeon;
Seo, Yu Bin;
Kee, Sae Yoon;
Jeong, Hye Won;
Lee, Hee Young;
Eun, Byung Wook;
Choo, Eun Ju;
Lee, Jacob;
Song, Joon Young;
Wie, Seong-Heon;
Lee, Jin Soo;
Cheong, Hee Jin;
Kim, Woo Joo;
Kim, Young Keun.
Severe influenza is defined as influenza with a severe symptom or syndrome such
as respiratory distress or deceased consciousness or accompanying a severe complication such as encephalopathy or renal failure. In contrast to mild influenza, for
which patients recover mostly by ambulatory care, severe infl...
This interim guidance document aims to help clinicians with supportive management of patients who have acute respiratory failure and septic shock as a consequence of severe infection. Because other complications have been seen (renal failure, pericarditis, DIC, as above) clinicians should monitor for the...
Almost 3 billion people, in low- and middle-income countries mostly, still rely on solid fuels (wood, animal dung, charcoal, crop wastes and coal) burned in inefficient and highly polluting stoves for cooking and heating. In 2012 alone, no fewer than 4.3 million children and adults died prematurely from ...
"DESCRIPTION:
The American College of Physicians (ACP) developed this guideline to present the evidence and provide clinical recommendations on the treatment of anemia and iron deficiency in adult patients with heart disease.
METHODS:
This guideline is based on published literature in the English langua...
Hematínicos,
Hierro/efectos adversos,
Anemia Ferropénica,
Enfermedad Coronaria,
Insuficiencia Cardíaca,
Anemia Ferropénica/complicaciones,
Anemia Ferropénica/terapia,
Enfermedad Coronaria/complicaciones,
Enfermedad Coronaria/mortalidad,
Hematínicos/efectos adversos,
Hematínicos/uso terapéutico,
Hierro/uso terapéutico
