Thanks for the feedback.
RIP.
Without referring directly to this case, it does highlight the problem of diagnosing serious illness in children.
Most kids, suffer about 7 or 8 feverish illnesses before they are two years old. Most go and see their GP. (Thats an awful lot of consultations).
Sussing out the serious cases isn't always that easy-on the one hand, lots of presentations, on the other hand, the 2nd biggest killer of children is fever. (About 100 a year in the UK).
We're trying to make the process of sifting the wheat from the chaff, a little more scientific.
I'm trying to wade through and disseminate these at the moment...
CG47 Feverish illness in young children: Full guideline - my own practice has now changed as a result.
The science is straightforward, changing the mindset of entrenched clinicians (mostly nurses I'm afraid to say), is a little more challenging.