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Severe Malnutrition in Children: WHO Assessment and Management, Chapter 7

Chapter 7 of the WHO guidelines on managing the child with a serious infection or severe malnutrition. Defines severe malnutrition as oedema of both feet or weight-for-height below -3SD and sets out the assessment and treatment steps. Externally authored WHO guideline extract, not a KMTC lecture.

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