Happy April everyone!

 

We interrupt our series of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections (right before the pus starts!) to bring you a timely review of neonatal fever. There is some great, exciting new research coming on our evaluation of febrile neonates to help us do the most for these kids with less. This is field that has had multiple breakthroughs in treatment but few changes in the evaluation for almost 25 years! 

 

But before we bring out the new, we need a brief history lesson on why febrile neonates are traditionally so scary. Dr. Chan Lowe, Pediatrics hospitalist extraordinaire, joins us for a discussion of why we do the blood-urine-csf-antibiotics-admit dance for all these febrile neonates when most of them are viruses. 

 

So, grab your hyper-color T-shirt and your Gameboy as we travel back to the 90’s to learn why you should take proceed with caution with febrile neonates.

 

The AZEMCast Team

 

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