4 results
Serious Bacterial Illness (SBI):
1) UTI and pyelonephritis
Most common cause of SBI
Accounts for 3-8% of uncharacterized fevers
Female
uncharacterized fevers ... Consider BCx, CSF evaluation ... specificity 2) Pneumonia ... #Peds #EM #Classification ... #Ddxof
Bilateral B-Lines in case of Pneumonia on Lung POCUS

Young healthy pt with fever/dyspnea. POCUS lung exam
healthy pt with fever ... travel hx, home meds ... partially seen shred sign ... NOT definitively diagnose ... #Lung #POCUS #clinical
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 ... if they have no clinical ... and lab signs ( ... #Diagnosis #Peds
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia - Illness Script

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY: Unknown trigger, reversible inflammatory/fibroproliferative process. Polypoid fibroblastic aggregates that plug
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia ... Males=Females SIGNS ... Cough, dyspnea, fever ... : Clinical diagnosis ... identified (autoimmune, meds