Authors' Thinkframe
- Distinguishing a benign cause of fever and rash from a potentially life-threatening one (is of utmost importance but may be difficult)
Serious bacterial illness tends to progress quickly, becoming fulminant in hours
Suggestive serious problems:
- An ill-appearing febrile child
- A progressive petechial or purpuric rash or diffuse erythema (erythroderma)