Management of Pediatric Pneumonia

Pneumonia is the most common cause of morbidity and mortality in children under 5 years old worldwide. Even though the developing world accounts for the vast majority of pediatric pneumonia-related mortality, pneumonia nevertheless has a considerable economic burden in wealthy nations due to high...

• Chronic abdominal pain in children is frequently functional, meaning no underlying organic disease is present. Functional abdominal pain is classified based on symptoms and location. Differentiating functional from organic pain involves looking for red flags like onset before age 5, weight loss, fever, joint pain, deceleration of growth, GI bleeding, and abnormal lab results. Organic pain also tends to wake children up at night and have specific radiation patterns.