![]() Febrile Infants Involving parents/guardians in decision making can be appropriate when your risk : benefit ratio is equivalent.Performing Lumbar Punctures, giving empiric antibiotics, and admitting everyone is also not without its risks.Risk for invasive bacterial infection alters with age. ![]() Risk Stratification is not an all or nothing proclamation.Specific Pathogen Identification is improving and more timely (some results within 1 hr).Testing is changing (ex, WBC is no longer recommendedas a discriminator risk stratification).Coli is now the most common cause of invasive bacterial infections in this age group) As was mentioned last week, the evaluation of febrile infants is evolving because of several factors:.Febrile Infants 8 to 28 days old: Some Basics to Keep in Mind
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