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The Risk Tolerance of Fever in Infants Under One Month of Age
In an infant under one month of age, my inclination personally is to still do what we call the full ruled out sepsis. The AAP right now is trying to put together a guideline for the manage of febrile infants and they are stuck on that very issue. So I don't know if we'll ever have that answer. It gets back to sort of your gestalt looking at the child and is he really that sick? Was that 100.5 or was it 102? Is this child profoundly irritable or not?