Capillary Blood Gas in Children Hospitalized Due to Influenza Predicts the Risk of Lower Respiratory Tract Infection.
August WrotekTeresa JackowskaPublished in: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) (2022)
The CBG is useful mainly in children under two years, predicts the risk of LRTI, and can help exclude the risk of CXR + pneumonia. Children under six months of age represent the group that would benefit the most from CBG. A CBG-based protocol for the performance of CXR could significantly decrease the number of unnecessary CXRs.