title: Treating lower respiratory tract ailments in children and infants.
abstract: This article offers a guide to history taking and initial assessment of children with respiratory ailments, outlines the risk factors involved and describes referral procedures to children's services. It also presents two case studies of children who had been assessed in the author's emergency department and who required inpatient admission for different types of respiratory illness.
authors.affiliation: Great Western Hospital, Swindon. siba.paul@gwh.nhs.uk
authors.forename: Siba Prosad
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Paul
authors.forename: Fiona
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Barratt
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wilkinson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001988:Bronchiolitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004630:Emergencies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D012140:Respiratory Tract Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy