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Ep 173 Febrile Infant – Risk Stratification and Workup

Emergency Medicine Cases

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With each passing decade, we are less and less aggressive with working up the febrile infant. We used to do LPs on all infants under three months of age with a fever without an obvious source,. Now we select infants carefully under two months of age for an LP. What biomarkers can help in decisions on management? Dr. Brett Burstein: Does the height of the fever matter? This is something that I've heard different opinions about.

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