THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN ARE DYING BECAUSE OF WHO
Thousands of young kids could be dying each year because the World health Organization has not revised guidelines for healing those going into shock, UK investigators alert.
They state the recommendations to give large amounts of fluid is dangerous.
The updated guidelines in 2013 did not recommend a change, which the researchers described as “disappointing and puzzling”.
The WHO said it had to be “very vigilant” when altering guidelines.

And that it directed to publish a new set of interim guidelines by early 2015.
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We’re very worried that two and a half years subsequent the guidelines have not changed”
Prof Kathryn Maitland Imperial school London
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Critically ill patients can proceed into shock as a outcome of critical diseases, such as malaria, or fluid loss. It alterations the way body-fluid flows around the body leaving patients looking fair.
The suggested treatment is “rapid fluid resuscitation” – a large injection of fluid via a drip.
This brings young kids out of shock, but a large study on children in Africa in 2011 proposed it was furthermore deadly.
Three more young kids out of every 100 treated would pass away with fluid resuscitation when contrasted with those gradually given little quantities of fluid, the study demonstrated.
In those with the most severe shock, 48% past away with the resuscitation contrasted with 20% given the reduced fluid doses, it proposed.
Prof Kathryn Maitland, a paediatrician with the health study assembly and Imperial College London, criticised the WHO for not changing guidelines in its newest revise.
She notified the BBC: “We’re very worried that two and a half years later the guidelines have not changed.”
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We have to be very vigilant in making recommendations”
Dr Elizabeth Mason World health association
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She said there was a need of data on the accurate number children being diagnosed with shock.
But she added: “We can be confident that if clinics pursue the guidelines, there will be excess death. it is likely to run into thousands.”
The WHO said the study came three-quarters of the way through the last revise and that systematically assessing all the clues on managing shock would have delayed the other guidelines.
Dr Elizabeth Mason, the WHO’s director of maternal, baby, progeny and adolescent health, told the BBC: “It was a fairly difficult decision, but we don’t make conclusions based on one study alone, even if it is fairly groundbreaking.
“As an organisation we have to be very vigilant in making recommendations, we need a methodical review of the evidence else with every new study we could be altering WHO guidelines.”
She said new interim guidelines were “anticipated by the end of the year or the starting of next year”.