The team at DFTB had our second article published in the series for Emergency Medicine Australasia Journal.
Healthcare professionals who do not meet sick children on a regular basis are often anxious about missing a serious bacterial infection in a child. Even for those of us working solely in paediatrics, there is still the same fear of sending home a pyrexial child without recognising how unwell they are. Each individual needs to have a system in place, and a process to work through, when assessing the child who is febrile with no focus of infection. A combination of history, physical assessment and physiological markers can be used for correct identification.
Click here to read the rest of the article – “Needle in a haystack: how to identify the sick febrile child”
Reference:
Davis T, Goldstein H, Lawton B. Tagg A.Needle in a haystack: how to identify the sick febrile child. Emerg Med Australas. 2015 Aug;27(4):284-6.
