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  • Kawasaki disease
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    Kawasaki disease …Clinical Practice Guidelines : Kawasaki disease …   >   Kawasaki disease In this section About Clinical Practice Guidelines CPG index Paediatric Improvement …
  • Cervical lymphadenopathy
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    Cervical lymphadenopathy PIC Endorsed See also Febrile Child Kawasaki Disease Key points Cervical … and neck infections such a retropharyngeal abscess. Kawasaki disease Kawasaki disease may present … No investigations routinely required Unwell See Febrile child See Kawasaki Consider neck USS if suspected abscess …
  • CPG Committee Calendar
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      The limping or non-weightbearing child Wednesday 15   Kawasaki disease  September 2025 Thursday 4  Infantile …
  • Chest pain
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    /acquired cardiac disease Family history sudden cardiac death or arrhythmia History of Kawasaki disease … tissue disease eg Marfan, Ehlers-Danlos History of Kawasaki disease Known aortic root dilatation New … Cocaine, methamphetamine or synthetic cannabinoids use Known cardiac disease or cardiac surgery Kawasaki …
  • Empiric treatment of infectious diseases in child with suspected Ebola
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    : Antiviral_drug_doses_in_children_with_influenza Kawasaki disease IVIG 2 g/kg infusion over 10 hours and aspirin 3-5 mg/kg 24H Toxic shock syndrome …
  • Febrile child
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    and suspected or confirmed neutropenia Fever in the recently returned traveller Kawasaki disease Petechiae … for Kawasaki disease  or PIMS-TS if there is a history of COVID-19 infection Other uncommon causes of prolonged …
  • Prolonged fever
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    Sepsis: assessment and management Kawasaki disease Key points Infection is the most common cause … inflammatory conditions: consider clinical criteria of Kawasaki Disease including incomplete, acute rheumatic …
  • Serum Sickness and Serum Sickness like reactions (SSLRs)
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    * Kawasaki disease Acute rheumatic fever   * Typically show involvement of mucous membranes Rash Fever …
  • Sepsis – assessment and management
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    Crit Care Med 2005; 6:2. Kawasaki T, et al. Update on paediatric sepsis: a review. Journal of Intensive …
  • The acutely swollen joint
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    Kawasaki disease Prolonged fever >5 days Rash, conjunctivitis, cervical lymphadenopathy, swelling of hands …