The "Petechiae in children" (PiC) study: evaluating potential clinical decision rules for the management of feverish children with non-blanching rashes, including the role of point of care testing for Procalcitonin & Neisseria meningitidis DNA - a study protocol

• Główni autorzy: Thomas Waterfield (Autor), Mark D. Lyttle (Autor), Derek Fairley (Autor), James Mckenna (Autor), Kerry Woolfall (Autor), Fiona Lynn (Autor), Julie-Ann Maney (Autor), Damian Roland (Autor), Aoife Weir (Autor), Michael D. Shields (Autor), on behalf of Paediatric Emergency Research in the UK and Ireland (PERUKI) (Autor)
• Format: Książka
• Wydane: BMC, 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Children commonly present to Emergency Departments (ED) with a non-blanching rash in the context of a feverish illness. While most have a self-limiting viral illness, this combination of features potentially represents invasive serious bacterial infection, including meningococcal...