(TSS) Meningococcal Sepsis Necrotising Fasciitis Neonatal Sepsis and Meningitis Fever in Oncology/Immunocompromised/Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) Patients Severe Malaria Osteomyelitis/Septic Arthritis: Urgent Management Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT) Duct-Dependant Congenital Heart Disease Tetralogy of Fallot ...
Accuracy of the "traffic light" clinical decision rule for serious bacterial infections in young children with fever: a retrospective cohort study. To determine the accuracy of a clinical decision rule (the traffic light system developed by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (...
For children of all ages, emergency assessment includes four distinct, sequential steps: (1) the general observational assessment—the PAT; (2) the ‘primary’ hands-on physiological assessment with the ABCDEs; (3) the ‘secondary’ anatomical assessment
Design Group (1) Children with fever >38掳C in (a) Paediatric Emergency Department (PED) or (b) Walk-In-Centre...doi:10.1136/archdischild-2015-308599.99Foster, SBisset, CArchives of Disease in Childhood
The predictive value of alarming signs of the NICE traffic light system and vital signs only had moderate predictive value for serious illnesses. The combination of alarming signs and CRP had good predictive value and this "feverkidstool" (www.erasmusmc.nl/feverkidstool) can be easily applied ...
Conclusion Safety netting is an important concept that has gained greater attention over the last few years, particularly since publication of the NICE fever guideline. However, the best format of safety netting advice has been open to debate with growing evidence that providing written and audio-...