Temperature threshold in the screening of bacterial infections in young infants with hypothermia.

Yu Hsiang Johnny Lo Christopher GravesJamie Lynn HollandAlexander Joseph RogersNathan MoneyAndrew Nobuhide HashikawaSriram Ramgopal

Published in: Emergency medicine journal : EMJ (2022)

Young infants with SBI and IBI presented with lower temperatures than infants without infections. However, there was no temperature threshold to reliably identify SBI or IBI. Further research incorporating clinical and laboratory parameters, in addition to temperature, may help to improve risk stratification for these vulnerable patients.

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