Dengue shock syndrome is a medical emergency that requires prompt and vigorous volume replacement therapy. Until now the mortality rate of dengue shock syndrome remains high especially when associated with encephalopathy. Data from Pirngadi Hospital Medan in 1994 showed a case fatality rate of dengue shock syndrome with encephalopathy of 60 percent. The case fatality rate of dengue shock syndro…
The advantage of a chest X-ray in the RLD position in 15 children with DHF hospitalized at the paediatric ward of the Ternate General Hospital within the period of May-June-July 1990 and June-July 1991 were evaluated. Besides clinical and laboratory assessment to establish the diagnosis of DHF according to the WHO guidelines (1975), a chest X-ray in the RLD position was performed on each child …