Resumo
Definição
História e exame físico
Fatores de risco
- elevação da temperatura
- idade jovem
- sexo masculino
- história familiar de convulsões febris
- infecção bacteriana ou viral fora do sistema nervoso central
- vacinações
- exposição pré-natal à nicotina
- deficiência de ferro
- complicações na gestação, no trabalho de parto e no parto
Investigações diagnósticas
Investigações a serem consideradas
- punção lombar
- estudos virais
- hemocultura
- eletroencefalograma (EEG)
- ressonância nuclear magnética (RNM) cranioencefálica
- sódio sérico
- Hemograma completo
- glicemia sanguínea capilar
- glicose sérica
- perfil de ferro
Algoritmo de tratamento
Colaboradores
Autores
Damian Roland, BMedSci, MBBS, FRCPCH, PhD
Honorary Associate Professor and Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine
Paediatric Emergency Medicine Leicester Academic (PEMLA) Group
Children’s Emergency Department
Leicester Royal Infirmary
Leicester
UK
Declarações
DR declares that he is a previous member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Feverish Illness in Children Guideline Group.
Agradecimentos
Dr Damian Roland would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Leena Mewasingh, Dr Frances Morrison, Dr John J. Millichap and Dr J. Gordon Millichap, previous contributors to this topic. LM has received funding from drug companies (e.g., Eisai) to attend medical conferences and been invited to an educational symposium (Novartis, LivaNova). FM declares that she has no competing interests. JJM serves as an Associate Editor of Neurology and serves on the editorial board of Pediatric Neurology Briefs; volunteers on the medical advisory board of The Jack Pribaz Foundation (KCNQ2.org); received speaker honoraria from Invitae; received royalties for online monographs from Up-To-Date; served on the scientific advisory board for Mallinckrodt; is principal investigator for a clinical trial funded by UCB Pharma; and is the principal investigator for research grants from Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy and the Thrasher Research Fund. JJM is an author of a number of references cited in this topic. JGM is an author of a number of references cited in this topic.
Revisores
Robert S. Rust, Jr., MA, MD
Professor
Department of Neurology
University of Virginia Health System
Charlottesville
VA
Declarações
RSR declares that he has no competing interests.
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