Beware of the Zebra: Nine-year-old with Fever

An otherwise healthy nine-year-old female who spoke only French presented with abdominal pain, vomiting, intermittent fevers, fatigue, and headache. She then quickly became febrile and altered requiring intubation. When treating a healthy child, the physician may initially develop a differential tha...

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Autores principales: Lupez, Kathryn, Allen, Bryant, Fox, Sean, Lewis, Margaret
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2019
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Clinicopathological Cases
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6682242/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31403091
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.5.42119
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description An otherwise healthy nine-year-old female who spoke only French presented with abdominal pain, vomiting, intermittent fevers, fatigue, and headache. She then quickly became febrile and altered requiring intubation. When treating a healthy child, the physician may initially develop a differential that includes common illnesses. Yet, as emergency medicine providers, we must be thinking about the “zebras” in order to not miss potentially deadly, curable diseases.
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spelling pubmed-66822422019-08-09 Beware of the Zebra: Nine-year-old with Fever Lupez, Kathryn Allen, Bryant Fox, Sean Lewis, Margaret Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med Clinicopathological Cases An otherwise healthy nine-year-old female who spoke only French presented with abdominal pain, vomiting, intermittent fevers, fatigue, and headache. She then quickly became febrile and altered requiring intubation. When treating a healthy child, the physician may initially develop a differential that includes common illnesses. Yet, as emergency medicine providers, we must be thinking about the “zebras” in order to not miss potentially deadly, curable diseases. University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2019-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6682242/ /pubmed/31403091 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.5.42119 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Lupez et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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title_short Beware of the Zebra: Nine-year-old with Fever
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6682242/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31403091
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.5.42119
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