Preliminary determination of infection: clinical manifestations
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1673-4912.2020.03.001
- VernacularTitle:感染的初步判定：临床表现
- Author:
Juanzhen LI
1
;
Ying WANG
Author Information
1. 上海交通大学医学院附属上海儿童医学中心重症医学科 200127
- From:
Chinese Pediatric Emergency Medicine
2020;27(3):161-165
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Infection is a major childhood disease, which is a documented or suspected systemic or local infection caused by any pathogen.Most children are mildly infected with a good prognosis, while a small part progress quickly, which causes multiple organ dysfunction, even leads to death.Infection is one of the main causes of death in children.Fever is one of the most common symptom in infection, it′s controversial to predict the severity of illness by using the fever degree.Studies pointed out that children′s symptoms of the corresponding site of infection are better for predicting the severity of infection.So it′s important to identify the symptoms of infection and intervene.Herein, we reviewed the common symptoms and signs of infection in childhood.
