Pediatrics

Thinking in pediatrics

Twelve ways a child changes the reasoning. Each one is a decision you make first; the principle is stated after, so it arrives as something you already believe.

Principle 1 of 12

Age matters

Two children with a temperature of 38.6 and no obvious source. One is 18 days old. One is 3 years old and drinking juice on the waiting room floor.

Which child needs a full septic workup regardless of how well they look?

The adult frame these principles modify

TopicClinical reasoning, the adult frame TopicThe one-sentence case