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Validation of the Step-By-Step Approach to Febrile Infants

#Diagnosis #Management #Pediatrics #Peds #Febrile #Infant #StepByStep #Algorithm #LP
#Diagnosis #Management ... #Pediatrics #Peds ... StepByStep #Algorithm #LP ... #Antibiotics #Risk ... Stratification #Fever
“Step by Step” – the new kid on the block – aims to risk stratify this
investigations and treatments ... an infant with fever ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #Pediatrics #Peds ... Stratification #Fever
The Febrile Infant Step-by-Step Algorithm
This is an algorithm developed by European emergency physicians to identify low-risk
empiric antibiotic treatment ... Diagnosis #EBM #Management ... #Pediatrics #Peds ... StepByStep #Algorithm #LP ... Stratification #Fever
Croup Diagnosis and Management Pearls
Common childhood illness, usually viral and self limiting. Characterised by a seal-like
hoarse voice +/- fever ... rhinorrhea, and fever ... Evaluation: • Mild ... Treatment: Single ... #pediatrics #peds
Evaluation of suspected incomplete Kawasaki Disease

1. AHA consensus recommendations
2. Infants ≤6 months old on day ≥7
Evaluation of suspected ... old on day ≥7 of fever ... within 10 d of fever ... clinical and lab signs ... #Diagnosis #Peds
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
Evaluation Major ... or family - Ever ... murmur 3/6) - Pulmonary ... one post op Cardiology ... medical and surgical management
Severe Heart Failure & Cardiogenic Shock - Management Checklist 
Evaluation 
 - EKG & echocardiography
Checklist Evaluation ... and/or digoxin level ... Revascularization, treatment ... #HeartFailure #Cardiology ... #Management
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy - Summary
1. Definition
 • Towards the end of pregnancy to 5 months postpartum
cardiomyopathy • Pulmonary ... ancestry, LGE on MRI ... ARB/ACE-I/ARNI/MRA ... teratogenic GDMT meds ... #cardiology #treatment
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia - Illness Script

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY: Unknown trigger, reversible inflammatory/fibroproliferative process. Polypoid fibroblastic aggregates that plug
Males=Females SIGNS ... Cough, dyspnea, fever ... , neoplastic) TREATMENT ... Pneumonia #diagnosis #management ... #pulmonary
Cryptococcal meningitis on T2 MRI
30 M from sub-Saharan Africa presents w/ progressive Headache x1 mo, +neck
of prior silent pulmonary ... are common but fever ... half. absence of fever ... Standard treatment ... If a second LP is