Ep 173 Febrile Infant – Risk Stratification and Workup
Emergency Medicine Cases
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The Cost Benefits of Doing an LP
In Montreal, for example, because they have Procalstonan, their likelihood of having to do the number of LPs is going to be diminished. The principal author on the forthcoming guidelines for fibrating infants from the Canadian Pediatric Society advocates for PCT testing. In our setting, CBC costs about a dollar, a CRP costs about $2 and a PCT costs about $27. That's when you consider that in the scheme of admission lumbar spasms are zero-cost admissions.
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