Febrile seizures: Current role of the laboratory investigation and source of the fever in the diagnostic approach

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 493-497

  Teran, Carlos G ^a,b   Medows, Marsha ^a,b   Wong, Sze H ^b   Rodriguez, Luis ^a,b   Varghese, Raymol ^a,b  

^a WOODHULL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

diagnostic approach; febrile seizures; laboratory investigation

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; CALCIUM; HEMOGLOBIN; MAGNESIUM; PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; BICARBONATE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CULTURE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; E BOX ELEMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAGNESIUM BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; NEUTROPHILIA; NEWBORN; OTITIS MEDIA; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALMONELLA; SEASONAL VARIATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; VIRUS INFECTION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DEFENSIVE MEDICINE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; SEIZURES, FEBRILE;

EID: 84862223316     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: 15351815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e3182586f90     Document Type: Article

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