{"id":241,"date":"2020-08-17T06:22:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T06:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/?p=241"},"modified":"2020-08-17T06:22:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T06:22:01","slug":"malaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/malaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Malaria\/\">Malaria<\/a> was an existing Victorian CPG that has been revised then reviewed by CPG Committee members. It will be considered for PIC endorsement on 27 August.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Malaria should be suspected in children with any febrile illness if they have travelled to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Malaria\/#map\">region where malaria is endemic<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Artemether-lumefantrine is the treatment of choice for uncomplicated\u00a0<em>Plasmodium falciparum<\/em>\u00a0malaria<\/li>\n<li>Infection with\u00a0<em>P. vivax<\/em>,\u00a0<em>P. ovale<\/em>\u00a0(or an unknown species) must be treated with primaquine to prevent relapse<\/li>\n<li>G6PD screening must be done before Primaquine is commenced<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This existing Victorian CPG has been revised and will be considered for PIC endorsement on 27 August<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11797,28,9503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-cpg-posts","category-news","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}