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Febrile Convulsions

What Happens to the Infant Admitted to the Hospital

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, P.O. Box 26901, Oklahoma City, OK 73190

We present our experience with children with febrile convulsions admitted to a large teaching hospital. Elective admission on a routine basis increases the tendency for unnecessary additional tests. Hospital admission should be reserved for children with severe multiple febrile seizures, or the underlying serious disease or where parental anxiety and other social circumstances indicate. Workups should be done only in selected cases consistent with clinical findings. The yield of such workup is marginal, even in a hospitalized child with multiple febrile seizures.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 19, No. 5, 361-362 (1980)
DOI: 10.1177/000992288001900510


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