Febrile Infants 8 to 28 Days Old! Pediatric Fever Update
For this Morsel, let us consider the new AAP guidelines and the evaluation and management of the well-appearing febrile infant 8 to 28 days of age.
Tag Urinary tract infection
Roseville Criteria for Pediatric Fever
FEVER! It demands a lot of our attention when caring for children. Appropriately, it has also been baked into many delicious Morsels. Certainly, there are numerous Infectious Diseases to consider and, of course, there are concerns when we can’t discern…
Labial Adhesions and Topical Estrogen
While we often consider the Emergency Department as being present only for “major” problems, we all know that our services go well beyond the critically ill and majorly injured. Often those “minor” issues can occupy a lot of our shift…
Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) Algorithm
It often seems that we are on the search for the omnipresent Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) in the Pediatric ED. “You have fever? Let’s check the urine.” “You have belly pain? Let’s check the urine.” “You think your urine smells funny?…
Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
Often, it seems as if the quest for “an answer” can cause us to see what is not there. This is particularly problematic with respect to the quest to decipher the cause of fever. Appropriately, we may consider the potential…
UTI and Duration of Fever
The modern era of vaccinations (Prevnar and HiB) have drastically reduced the risk of serious bacterial infections in our young febrile patients. But, unfortunately, Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) are not affected by the modern vaccines and, therefore must still be…
Concurrent Meningitis in infant with UTI?
Last week I mentioned that, at times, you realize that what you were taught may have been … hmm… not fully correct. Recently a colleague raised a great question: in the infant (6 week old) who has a…