Affiliation:
1. Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Abstract
To determine whether all febrile outpatients below the age of two months should be routinely hospitalized and given parenteral antibiotics because of the possibility of occult sepsis or meningitis, 147 such admissions were re viewed over four years. None of the neonates had occult bacterial meningitis, while one may have had occult sepsis. Because serious infections may have been missed in outpatients not hospitalized, the outcome of all such illnesses seen in the clinic during a subsequent six months was monitored; none of 17 hospitalized or 20 followed as outpatients experienced sepsis or meningitis. If our findings are confirmed in other studies, febrile outpatient neonates with a well appearance, normal cerebrospinal fluid and physical examination, and dependable follow-up may not require universal hospitalization and antibiotics.
Subject
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
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