The Fluid Frontier in the Lungs: Scoring it to Predict its Flow

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Pneumonia continues to be the scourge of children under-five especially in the tropical region of the globe [1]. As per WHO, clinical pneumonia incidence is highest in South-East Asia (0.36 episodes per child-year). In the early 1970s, one of the earliest estimates of the worldwide burden of communicable diseases was made. It was further refined by modeling the association between all-cause mortality in children aged less than 5 y and the proportion of deaths attributable to acute respiratory infection [2, 3]. One-fifth to one-third of deaths in under-5 were due to or associated with acute respiratory infection (ARI). The 1993 World Development Report showed that ARI caused 30% of all childhood deaths. …