Febrile infants
Posted: September 19, 2011 Filed under: Podcasts Leave a comment »Infants with fever present a special challenge in the emergency department. Most of these children require large workups and admission to be sure that we aren’t missing serious bacterial infections or meningitis. The risks are high here and we need to make sure that we do the right thing for our smallest and youngest patients. We’ll talk about how to assess infants from the foot of the bed, how to get an effective history and physical, how to do a sepsis workup in this age group, and some tricks of the trade for how to do an LP on an infant.
There’s also a bonus section on pediatric UTIs and how to use a glidescope.
Febrile infants show notes (Word format)
Febrile infants show notes (PDF format)
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Finally, as promised- an international listener contacted me so I’d like to give him a shout out. Dr. Lars Lomberg is an EM physician in Germany where there are no formal EM training programs. He has a website for Emergency Medicine in Germany so if you can read German, check it out.
