None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Pneumonia, an infection of the lung, is a common reason for admission to hospital, and worldwide is still the leading cause of mortality in children under 5 years. Relatively rarely, a complication of this is infected fluid surrounding the lung, termed an empyema. Empyemas are very rare in metropolitan areas, but anecdotally are more common in rural and remote regions. This is currently unreported. This audit will help us to find out exactly how many children are at risk, and which mode of management appears to confer the shortest hospital stay and with minimal complications.
Interventions
Assessing those that have been treated with early thoracotomy versus those that have had either fibrinolytic or video-assisted thoracotomies, or just simple drainage and antibiotics. The duration of observation is the total admission for each individual episode of pneumonia and pleural empyema.
Sponsors
The Townsville Hospital, Institute of Women's and Child Health, Department of Paediatrics
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
0 to 16 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
All children admitted to our tertiary referral centre in North Queensland, Australia with pleural effusion in the context of acute pneumonia.
Exclusion criteria
All adult cases.
Outcome results
None listed