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You are in the ED when a 7 month old is brought in by EMS after a witnessed generalized seizure. The grandmother reports that the child has had URI symptoms for a couple of days and then developed a fever today. Shortly after giving ibuprofen, the child...

MRI and EEG could identify children at risk for epilepsy after febrile seizures November 7, 2012 in Neuroscience Seizures during childhood fever are usually benign, but when prolonged, they can foreshadow an increased risk of epilepsy later in life...

I recently posted this information about fever on my nursing blog and wanted to share it here as well. I hope that you can use the information. Tis the season for flu and cold's now, my family has had it for weeks also. I hope that your family is well...

Julianna Paradisi, RN, OCN, writes a monthly post for this blog and works as an infusion nurse in outpatient oncology. CT Scan ink and watercolor on paper 2014 by jparadisi I was precepting a new nurse. She’d earned a job in our PICU during her student...

For most of human history, an unusually high body temperature was a sign of the supernatural. Fevers were sinister but common, unnatural but real. And without a theoretical underpinning by which to understand them, fevers long seemed to be as nebulous...