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Antibiotics in the paediatric emergency department

Don't Forget the Bubbles

However, results may take some time and, as such, rapid point-of-care tests are increasingly used. This is true in life-threatening conditions such as sepsis. However, when children do not have features of sepsis, oral antibiotics are equally effective. 2011 Aug;16(8):995–1006. 2011 Oct 1;66(Suppl 2):ii1–23.

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Diagnostics: Inflammatory Markers

Taming the SRU

A 2011 meta-analysis in the journal of Academic Emergency Medicine found ESR, CRP, and PCT were not acutely useful in the diagnosis of septic arthritis due to wildly varying sensitivities and specificities between studies. Sepsis PCT may have some utility in guiding posttest probability for sepsis when the diagnosis is unclear.