An approach to fever cases presenting to emergency medicine department
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: B999- Unspecified infectious disease
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2023/07/054822
- Lead Sponsor
- Manipal Centre for Infectious Disease
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Patients presenting to the emergency department with fever
Inclusion Criteria
1. Age group >=18 years
2. Fever >99.50F
3. Fever with a duration less than 7 days
1, Patients who are not willing to provide written informed consent
2. Fever with localizing symptoms to specific cause
3. Patients with malignancy, immunosuppression or autoimmune disorderr
Localizing symptoms: 1. Respiratory - cough, shortness of breath, crepitations on auscultation 2. Throat â?? tonsillitis, ear discharge 3. Musculoskeletal â?? abscess, cellulitis, single joint pain. 4. Gastrointestinal â?? abdominal pain with localized source appendicitis, cholecystitis 5. Genito urinary â?? burning micturition, renal angle tenderness, vaginal discharge, haematuria. 6. CNS â?? seizure, neck stiffness
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Proportion of patients treated successfully as per protocolTimepoint: 7 DAYS
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 2. Secondary outcome: <br/ ><br>a) Fever defervescence time, total investigations that were contributory/non-contributory required per person, <br/ ><br>b) proportion of patients with a definite diagnosis, <br/ ><br>c) Proportion of patients who develop sepsis & requires hospital admission, recovery. <br/ ><br>d) antimicrobial usageTimepoint: 7 DAYS