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Chapter 41 - Fever in the Time of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2021

By
Marilyn McDougall
Edited by
Shelley Riphagen  and
Sam Fosker
Shelley Riphagen
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London and South Thames Retrieval Service
Sam Fosker
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London
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Summary

A 9-year-old, previously well girl presented with a 5-day history of lethargy, fever and muscle pain. In addition, she had experienced significant abdominal pain with diarrhoea for 3 days. In the previous 2 days her mother had also noted a painless non-purulent conjunctivitis. This child presented 10 days after the SARS-CoV2 /COVID-19 pandemic had reached peak incidence in London, UK.

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Cases in Paediatric Critical Care Transfer and Retrieval Medicine , pp. 227 - 230
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Riphagen, S, Gomez, X, Gonzalez-Martinez, C, et al. Hyperinflammatory shock in children during COVID-19 pandemic. The Lancet 2020;395 (10237):1607–8.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) Guidance: Paediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome temporally associated with Covid-19. www.rcpch.ac.uk/resources/covid-19-guidance-management-children-admitted-hospital.Google Scholar
Verdoni, L, Mazza, A, Gervasoni, A, et al. An outbreak of severe Kawasaki-like disease at the Italian Epicenter of the SARS-Cov_2 epidemic: an observational cohort study. The Lancet 2020;395(10239):1771–8.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Weiss, SL, Peters, MJ, Alhazzan, W, et al. Surviving sepsis campaign international guidelines for the management of septic shock and sepsis-associated organ dysfunction in children. Intensive Care Med 2020;46:10–67, doi.org/10.1007/s00134–019-05878-6.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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