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Evaluation of the routine implementation of pulse oximeters into integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) guidelines at primary health care level in West Africa: the AIRE mixed-methods research protocol

2022; BioMed Central; Volume: 22; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1186/s12913-022-08982-4

1472-6963

Gildas Boris Hedible, Sarah Louart, Désiré Neboua, L Catala, Gildas Anago, Abdoul‐Guaniyi Sawadogo, G. Désiré Kargougou, Bertrand Méda, Jacques Séraphin Kolié, Adama Hema, Sory Keita, Mactar Niome, Abdoul Salam Savadogo, Lucie Peters-Bokol, Honorat Agbeci, Zineb Zair, Séverin Lenaud, Marine Vignon, Solange Ouédraogo Yugbaré, Hannatou Souleymane Abarry, Abdoul Aziz Diakité, Ibrahima Diallo, Franck Lamontagne, Valérie Briand, Désiré Lucien Dahourou, Anthony Cousien, Valéry Ridde, Valériane Leroy,

Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections

The AIRE operational project will evaluate the implementation of the routine Pulse Oximeter (PO) use in the integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) strategy for children under-5 in primary health care centers (PHC) in West Africa. The introduction of PO should promote the accurate identification of hypoxemia (pulse blood oxygen saturation Sp02 < 90%) among all severe IMCI cases (respiratory and non-respiratory) to prompt their effective case management (oxygen, antibiotics and other required treatments) at hospital. We seek to understand how the routine use of PO integrated in IMCI outpatients works (or not), for whom, in what contexts and with what outcomes.