Comparison of Full Outline of Unresponsiveness Score and Glasgow Coma Scale for Assessment of Consciousness in Children With Acute Encephalitis Syndrome.

Objective: To correlate the Full outline of unresponsiveness (FOUR) score and Glasgow coma scale (GCS) in the assessment of children with acute encephalitis syndrome (AES).

Methods: This observational study was conducted in the department of pediatrics of a public sector tertiary care center from January, 2019 to March, 2020. All consecutive patients of AES admitted during the study period (n=150) were recruited.

A study to assess the clinico-radiological presentation and outcome predictors in cases of tubercular meningitis.

Introduction: Tubercular bacterial meningitis continues to be an important cause of morbidity (especially neurologic handicap) in children from resource-poor countries. The present study was planned to assess the clinical and radiological presentation in cases of tubercular meningitis as well as to study the factors associated with mortality.

Methodology: This study was done over a period of 12 months on children between 5 years and 13 years with suspected TBM.

Paediatric COVID-19: Milder Presentation-A Silver Lining in Dark Cloud.

Objective: To assess the clinico-epidemiological profile of paediatric patients with Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection during the pandemic.

Methods: Clinico-epidemiological and laboratory profile of children between 1 month and 14 years were studied between 15 May and 31 July 2020, who had positive nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swab for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).

Results: A total of 30 children with median age of 10.