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“Step by Step” – the new kid on the block – aims to risk stratify this
investigations and treatments ... with fever without ... Procalcitonin <0.5 ng/mL ... Management #Pediatrics #Peds ... #LP #Antibiotics
The Febrile Infant Step-by-Step Algorithm
This is an algorithm developed by European emergency physicians to identify low-risk
The Febrile Infant ... empiric antibiotic treatment ... Management #Pediatrics #Peds ... #LP #Antibiotics ... Stratification #Fever
Evaluation of suspected incomplete Kawasaki Disease

1. AHA consensus recommendations
2. Infants ≤6 months old on day ≥7
Infants ≤6 months ... old on day ≥7 of fever ... if they have no clinical ... echo is positive, treatment ... #Diagnosis #Peds
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
or family - Ever ... murmur 3/6) - Pulmonary ... event, follow ACC algorithm ... Change in clinical ... days before Pulmonary
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
respiratory symptoms • Fever ... has five major clinical ... , systemic or meningitic ... fungal stain of clinical ... • Isolated fever
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 ... Standard treatment ... If a second LP is ... T2 #MRI #Brain #clinical