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Step by Step Algorithmic Approach to Pediatric Fever

Age < 21 days old (or 28 days for
Algorithmic Approach to Pediatric ... Fever Age < 21 ... sensitivity) Leukocytes ... #Peds #Diagnosis ... #Management #StepByStep
This brilliant summary of Kawasaki Disease comes from @DrCharlie19 - a Paediatric Registar based in London

#Diagnosis
summary of Kawasaki Disease ... based in London #Diagnosis ... #Management #Workup ... #Peds #Pediatrics ... #Kawasaki #Disease
Kawasaki Disease - Workup and Diagnostic Algorithm #Diagnosis #Management #Peds #Pediatrics #Kawasaki #Disease #Algorithm #CRASH #BURN
Kawasaki Disease ... - Workup and Diagnostic ... Algorithm #Diagnosis ... #Management #Peds ... #Pediatrics #Kawasaki
Algorithm for the Evaluation of Chronic Diarrhea (< 7 days)
Exclude:
1. Causes of acute diarrhea
2. Lactose intolerance
3.
Systemic disease ... - Fecal leukocytes ... Chronic #Diarrhea #management ... #algorithm #workup ... #diagnosis #differential
Algorithm for the Evaluation of Acute Diarrhea (< 7 days)
Are the following present?
   1.
Fecal leukocytes ... Bloody diarrhea, fever ... Acute #Diarrhea #management ... #algorithm #workup ... #diagnosis
Pulmonary Renal Syndrome

Definition: Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage + Glomerulonephritis
Presentation (Pulmonary and renal manifestations can occur weeks apart):
Pulmonary Renal Syndrome ... Cough, Dyspnea, Fever ... Differential Diagnosis ... , ESR, CRP • Urinalysis ... #differential #diagnosis
Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) vs. Kawasaki Disease
CDC Case Definition for MIS-C;
 • < 21
Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome ... Kawasaki Disease ... years old with fever ... Kawasaki #Comparison #diagnosis ... #peds #pediatrics
Leukemias Overview: ALL, CML, AML, APML, CLL

Acute leukemias > 20% blasts in the peripheral blood smear
extramedullary disease ... Headaches, bone pain, fever ... develop leukostasis syndrome ... • Tumor lysis syndrome ... Hematology #Oncology #Diagnosis
“Step by Step” – the new kid on the block – aims to risk stratify this
an infant with fever ... >21 days - No leukocytes ... CRP < 20 mg/L #Diagnosis ... #Management #Pediatrics ... Stratification #Fever
Campylobacter
Clinical 
 • Fever 
 • Abdominal pain 
 • Diarrhea (bloody stools) 
 • Vomiting
Clinical • Fever ... Guillain-Barré syndrome ... Management ... Antibiotics for severe disease ... Campylobacter #Diagnosis