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The Febrile Child with Altered Consciousness and Cerebral Malaria

Paediatric lecture on fever with altered consciousness or abnormal neurological signs: the alert-responds-to-voice-unresponsive assessment, the differential of cerebral malaria, meningitis, encephalitis and abscess, why assuming malaria is dangerous, hyperpyrexia and respiratory distress as severity markers, lumbar puncture, and correct quinine dosing with a loading dose.

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