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“Step by Step” – the new kid on the block – aims to risk stratify this
investigations and treatments ... Procalcitonin <0.5 ng/mL ... Management #Pediatrics #Peds ... Febrile #Infant #StepByStep ... #Algorithm #LP
The Febrile Infant Step-by-Step Algorithm
This is an algorithm developed by European emergency physicians to identify low-risk
empiric antibiotic treatment ... Management #Pediatrics #Peds ... Febrile #Infant #StepByStep ... #Algorithm #LP ... Stratification #Fever
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
respiratory symptoms • Fever ... infection • Cough, fever ... MC: CNS CSF: • ... • Sinusitis • Brain ... • Isolated fever
Cryptococcal meningitis on T2 MRI
30 M from sub-Saharan Africa presents w/ progressive Headache x1 mo, +neck
of prior silent pulmonary ... Standard treatment ... If a second LP is ... University Infectious Diseases ... meningitis #T2 #MRI #Brain