• Emily Rose.
• Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Old General Hospital, Room 1011, 1200 North State Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA. Electronic address: emilyros@usc.edu.
• Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am. 2021 Aug 1; 39 (3): 627-639.

AbstractPediatric fever is a common complaint in children. The most common cause is self-limited viral infection. However, neonates and young infants are evaluated and treated differently than older, vaccinated, and clinically evaluable children. Neonates should be admitted to the hospital, young infants in the second month of life may be risk stratified, and those deemed low risk on testing may be sent home with close follow-up. Children older than 2 months may be evaluated clinically for signs of bacterial infection that require intervention. Urinary tract infections cause more than 90% of serious bacterial illness in children, and younger children have a higher incidence of infection.Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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