{"id":17384,"date":"2022-08-28T06:27:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T06:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/?page_id=17384"},"modified":"2025-06-14T04:28:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T04:28:26","slug":"journal-2021-vol-22-no-2-original-articles-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/journal-2021-vol-22-no-2-original-articles-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal 2021 Vol.22 No.2 Original Articles 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Journal 2021 Vol.22 No.2<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Effects of Rapid Influenza Antigen Test on Antimicrobial Management of Pediatric Patients with Influenza-Like Illness in the Emergency Room<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong>Dianne Alexis C. Millado-Riambon, M.D., Elizabeth E. Gallardo, M.D., FPPS, FPIDSP and Aaron G. Tulay, M.D.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Abstract<br \/>\nBackground: <\/strong>Influenza is a commonly encountered respiratory tract infection and diagnosis remains to be a challenge. Use of a rapid antigen test may influence decisions on treatment in the emergency room (ER).<br \/>\n<strong>Objectives:<\/strong> This research aims to determine the effects of rapid influenza antigen test (RIAT) on antimicrobial management of influenza-like illness (ILI) in the ER, determine the clinical profile of pediatric patients with ILI and look into the relationship between RIAT result, symptomatology, and immunization status.<br \/>\n<strong>Methods:<\/strong> This is a cross-sectional study which involved review of charts of 195 pediatric patients with ILI who underwent RIAT (KlintecTM) through a nasopharyngeal swab in the ER of a tertiary hospital from September 2019 to February 2020. Chi-square, Fischer exact test and likelihood ratio were used for data analysis.<br \/>\n<strong>Results:<\/strong> Most pediatric patients were 7\u201312 years old males. Majority presented with fever, cough, and colds and underwent RIAT at 2\u20134 days from onset of illness. About 73.33% of study participants did not receive their yearly influenza vaccine and 70.7% of patients with positive RIAT had no influenza vaccine. There is a lower percentage of vaccinated children who developed cough (86.5% vs. 89.5%) and colds (80.8% vs. 83.2%) when compared with unvaccinated children. RIAT result significantly affected management in terms of antimicrobial prescribing to patients with ILI.<br \/>\n<strong>Conclusion:<\/strong> Influenza presents with non-specific symptoms and vaccination remains a major preventive measure against the disease. The result of RIAT facilitates targeted treatment for influenza and decreases unnecessary antibacterial use, but this should be done with careful thought and interpretation.<br \/>\n<strong>Keywords:<\/strong> Influenza, Influenza-like illness, Rapid influenza antigen test<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.56964\/pidspj20212202010\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.56964\/pidspj20212202010<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/010_vol-22-no-2_MILLADO-RIAMBON_RIAT.pdf\" target=\"_\" rel=\"noopener\">View Full Article in PDF format<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journal 2021 Vol.22 No.2 Effects of Rapid Influenza Antigen Test on Antimicrobial Management of Pediatric Patients with Influenza-Like Illness in the Emergency Room Dianne Alexis C. Millado-Riambon, M.D., Elizabeth E. Gallardo, M.D., FPPS, FPIDSP and Aaron G. Tulay, M.D. Abstract Background: Influenza is a commonly encountered respiratory tract infection and diagnosis remains to be a  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17384","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17384"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20003,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17384\/revisions\/20003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}