EDITORIAL

Guidelines on management of pleural infection in children

Some consensus but little evidence: guidelines on management of pleural infection in children

I M Balfour-Lynn

Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr I M Balfour-Lynn
Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London SW3 6NP, UK; i.balfourlynn@imperial.ac.uk

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A review of the newly published guidelines on the management of pleural infection in children

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Keywords: guidelines; pleural infection; children; British Thoracic Society

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Commissioned by the British Thoracic Society (BTS) Standards of Care Committee, the BTS guidelines for the management of pleural infection in children are published as a supplement to this month’s issue of Thorax.¹ They have also been subject to scrutiny by the Quality of Practice Committee (QPC) of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) using the AGREE appraisal instrument, and consequently have been endorsed by the RCPCH. So why did we write them and was it worth it? More importantly—should you read them? What follows are my views as chair of the guideline committee and may not represent those of the other members of the committee (listed in the Acknowledgements).

We are not paediatricians for nothing—we understand sibling rivalry—so when the adult respiratory physicians got an empyema guideline,² we wanted one. However, it was more than just that. . . . [Full text of this article]

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