The Usefulness of a Nasopharyngeal Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction System to Screen Pediatric Patients with Preoperative Fever.

Our retrospective observational study revealed that 44% of the FilmArray positive group subsequently developed symptoms, and no perioperative respiratory adverse events were observed in the FilmArray negative group. We suggest that FilmArray could be useful as a screening test for pediatric patients with preoperative fever. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.