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A fever at midnight: what to do, and when to come in
Most fevers in a well child are not an emergency. Our paediatric emergency lead on the four signs that are, and the ones that can safely wait until morning.
Written by the paediatric emergency lead, reviewed by the clinical quality board, and rewritten twice because the first two drafts used the word “pyrexia”.
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