The Febrile Infant: What's New?

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 213-220

  Baker, M Douglas ^a   Avner, Jeffrey R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency; fever; infant; infection; management; neonate

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIURIA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DRUG SAFETY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 56249127862     PISSN: 15228401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpem.2008.09.005     Document Type: Article

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