title: Acute Respiratory Infections (Oxford Respiratory Medicine Library)
author: Wei Shen Lim
description: <br>Wei Shen Lim is a respiratory physician who combines a busy clinical workload with a research interest in respiratory infections. He has been involved in the development of national guidelines in the area of respiratory infections including guidelines in relation to pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza, and was Chairman of the Guidelines Committee for the British Thoracic Society Guidelines for the Management of Community Acquired Pneumonia in Adults 2009. He is currently Chairman of the British Thoracic Society Respiratory Infection Specialist Advisory Group.<br>
zlib_text: NATIONAL GUIDELINES
  MANAGEMENT OF
  RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS
  IN CHILDREN
  
  NATIONAL GUIDELINES
  Page
  Introduction
  Chapter 1
  Preparation and best evidence
  06
  Chapter 2
  Common cold
  08
  Chapter 3
  Bacterial sinusitis
  11
  Chapter 4
  Acute pharyngitis
  21
  Chapter 5
  Acute tonsillitis
  26
  Chapter 6
  Chronic tonsillitis
  30
  Chapter 7
  Acute epiglottitis
  32
  Chapter 8
  Bacterial tracheitis
  35
  Chapter 9
  Croup
  38
  Chapter 10
  Acute bronchiolitis
  41
  Chapter 11
  Pneumonia in childhood
  45
  Chapter 12
  Atypical pneumonia
  54
  Chapter 13
  Nosocomial pneumonia
  61
  Chapter 14
  Poorly resolving pneumonia
  66
  Chapter 15
  Pneumonia in the immunocompromised
  child
  70
  Chapter 16
  Whooping cough
  73
  Chapter 17
  Bronchiectasis
  79
  Chapter 18
  Lung abscess
  82
  Chapter 19
  Pleural infection and empyema
  87
  Chapter 20
  Acute otitis media
  92
  Annexure 1
  Intubation
  99
  Annexure II
  Guidelines Committee
  100
  Annexure  III
  Abbreviations
  101
  CONTENTS
  
  NATIONAL GUIDELINES
  Introduction
  Respiratory tract infections are the main cause of morbidity and mortal