Clinical Pathway for Evaluation/Treatment
of Children with Fever
- Appendicitis, Inpatient
- Bronchiolitis, ED
- Bronchiolitis, Inpatient
- Cellulitis, Preseptal or Orbital, All Settings
- Cellulitis/Abscess, ED and Inpatient
- COVID-19 Screening, ED
- COVID-19 Screening, Inpatient
- COVID-19 Screening, Outpatient Specialty and Primary Care
- COVID-19, Acute, All Settings
- Croup, ED and Inpatient
- Fever in the Returned Traveler, ED
- Gastroenteritis and Dehydration, ED
- Heart Failure, Suspected, ED, ICU, Inpatient
- Influenza/Flu, ED
- Kawasaki Disease, ED and Inpatient
- Meningitis, Suspected, ED, Inpatient, ICU
- Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome
(MIS-C), Emergency, ICU and Inpatient - Neck Space Infection, Deep, ED
- Osteomyelitis, ED and Inpatient
- Otitis Media, Acute, All Settings
- Pharyngitis, ED and Inpatient
- Pneumonia, All Settings
- Sepsis, ED, Inpatient, PICU
- Sepsis, CICU
- Septic Arthritis, ED
- Sexually Transmitted Infections
(STI) in Adolescents,
ED, Primary Care - Urinary Tract Infection
(UTI), All Settings
Triage
- Epic Sepsis Screen
- Recent Travel Screen
- Infectious Disease Exposure Screen
- Isolation & Infection Control Considerations
Sepsis Screen
Positive
Positive
Sepsis Huddle
ED, Inpatient and PICU Sepsis Pathway
ED, Inpatient and PICU Sepsis Pathway
FLOC, RN Team Assessment
- History and Physical
- Determine Signs, Symptoms of Suspected/Recognizable Bacterial or Viral Infection
Other Considerations
Age > 56 days-24 months
- Evaluate UTI risk factors
- Consider occult pneumonia
- Immunizations Status
Age > 24 months
- History & physical-directed evaluation
Treatment
- Supportive Care Only for Most Viral Illnesses
- Consider Influenza Season/Treatment Indications
- Bacterial Infections, Pathogens, and Antibiotics
- CHOP Antibiograms
Disposition
Discharge
Admission
- Assure adequate hydration
- Appropriate VS
- Fever Care, Specific Discharge Instructions
- Have Family Review Fever Video
- Follow-up recommendations
Evidence
- Pediatric Fever of Unknown Origin
- Thermometry in Paediatric Practice
- Risk Stratification and Management of the Febrile Young Child
- Occult Pneumococcal Bacteremia: A Review
- 2017 AHA Kawasaki Disease Guidelines
- Fever in the Returning Traveler, Part II: A Methodological Approach to Initial Management
- Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Acute Bacterial Sinusitis in Children Aged 1 to 18 Years