UMEM Educational Pearls

Title: Febrile Seizures

Keywords: pediatric fever, pediatric seizure (PubMed Search)

Posted: 7/18/2008 by Don Van Wie, DO (Updated: 4/25/2024)
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PEDIATRIC FEVER + SEIZURE = FEVER

When a child has a fever and a seizure, do the age appropriate workup for a fever and you won't go wrong!!!

Routine laboratory studies usually are not indicated unless they are performed as part of a search for the source of a fever.

Electrolytes assessments are rarely helpful in the evaluation of febrile seizures.

Patients with febrile seizures have an incidence of bacteremia similar to patients with fever alone.