On November 13 and 14, 1996, a scientific symposium on oral rehydration therapy (ORT) was held at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health in Baltimore, MD. The purpose of the meeting was to review the current treatment practices for the treatment of this disease in the United States. The group noted that diarrhea resulted in 300 to 400 deaths per year among children, ap...

A study to determine the association between the use of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) by mothers who had children under five years old with diarrhea and their knowledge of diarrhea was conducted in 19 health centers and a hospital at Muang District, Samut Songkhram Province. It was found that in general there was significant association between the use of ORT and mother's knowledge of diarrhea...

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Program Number: 5885 Poster Board Number: C0071 Presentation Time: 8:30 AM–10:15 AM Outer Retinal Tubulation as a Predictor of the Growth Rate of Geographic Atrophy in Age-related Macular Degeneration Amirhossein Hariri1, Muneeswar G. Nittala1, Srinivas R. Sadda1, Eric C. Strauss2, Phillip Lai2, Erin Henry2. 1Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, CA; 2Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA. Purpo...

BACKGROUND Despite treatment recommendations from various organizations, oral rehydration therapy (ORT) continues to be underused, particularly by physicians in high-income countries. We conducted a systematic review of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) to compare ORT and intravenous therapy (IVT) for the treatment of dehydration secondary to acute gastroenteritis in children. METHODS RCTs ...