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Curbside Consults Podcast

Evaluation and Management of Febrile Neonates with Dr. Benard Dreyer

By Clement Lee, MD, MSc

Published July 20, 2022

In this episode of Curbside Consults, we examine the latest guidelines on the evaluation and management of well-appearing febrile infants 8-60 days old by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). We are joined by Dr. Benard Dreyer, a Professor of Pediatrics at NYU, the past president of the AAP, who is one of the guideline authors.

00:05 – Intro
 00:40 – Epidemiology of neonatal fever
 02:33 – Challenges in developing this guideline
 05:17 – Infants 8-21 days old
 07:37 – Infants 22-28 days old
 09:42 – Summary of infants 22-28 days old
 10:32 – Infants ≥28 days old: historical criteria
 12:18 – Infants ≥28 days old: lumbar puncture
 13:25 – Children excluded from the guideline
 15:45 – Anticipatory guidance for parents
 17:13 – Concluding remarks

Articles discussed in this episode:

1. Pantell RH et al. Evaluation and Management of Well-Appearing Febrile Infants 8 to 60 Days Old. Pediatrics 2021.

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Benard Dreyer, MD, is Professor of Pediatrics at NYU and the past president of the AAP.
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Clement is a 2021–2022 NEJM Editorial Fellow. He is currently an internal medicine hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a pediatric hospitalist at Lowell General Hospital. He completed his internal medicine-pediatrics residency at Penn-CHOP.