Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Multicenter Study Clinical Trial
Children with first-time simple febrile seizures are at low risk of serious bacterial illness.
To describe the rates of serious bacterial illness (SBI) in children presenting to emergency departments (EDs) with first-time uncomplicated febrile seizures. ⋯ Rates of SBI in this multi-institution population of children with first-time simple febrile seizures were low and are consistent with those published in the literature for febrile children without seizures.