Assessment and initial management of feverish illness in children younger than 5 years: Summary of updated NICE guidance

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 346, Issue 7909, 2013, Pages

  Fields, Ella ^a   Chard, Jiri ^a   Murphy, M Stephen ^a   Richardson, Martin ^b  

^a National Collaborating Centre for Women's and Children's Health   (United Kingdom)

^b PETERBOROUGH CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ELECTROLYTE; IBUPROFEN; PARACETAMOL;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BODY TEMPERATURE DISORDER; BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; BREATHING RATE; CHEMICAL THERMOMETER; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRYING; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTRONIC THERMOMETER; EPILEPTIC STATE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEEDING; FEVERISH ILLNESS; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEART RATE; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOME CARE; HUMAN; JOINT SWELLING; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOW RISK POPULATION; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; OXYGEN SATURATION; PALLOR; PARENT COUNSELING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RASH; RATING SCALE; RIGOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STIFF NECK; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TYMPANIC THERMOMETER; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE VOLUME; VOMITING;

CHILD; ENGLAND; FEVER; HUMANS; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878325241     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f2866     Document Type: Article

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