Publication: Paediatric practice: an approach to a child with fever
Date
2005
Authors
Article Type
Original Article
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
ISSN (Print) : 1993-2979 | ISSN (Online) : 1993-2987
Volume Title
Pages
Pages: 46 - 51
Publisher
Institute of Medicine
Abstract
Abstract
Nearly seventy percent of all children between the ages of one week and two-years-of-age are brought to Kanti Children’s Hospital for some Type of febrile episode.And 50% of these visits are for temperatures greater than or equal to 39 degrees celsius. These children may have significant bacterial infection. In 35% of these childrenn there’s no definable source for the fever on clinical examination. So the child that don’t have identifiable sources could be either bacteremic, meningitis or could have a bone or joint infection in evolution. Simple clinical observation to differentiate a well looking infant from a toxic infant helps to differentiate children who needs admisson or out patient follow-up.
Description
P.R. Sharma
Department of Child Health., Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu
P. Bhattarai
Department of Child Health., Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu
M. Sharma
Department of Child Health., Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu
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Identifier
https://doi.org/10.59779/jiomnepal.205