management
Last reviewed 01/2018
Management of PUO should be as follows:
- avoid blind treatment, though "best guess" treatment may be required if the patient is septicaemic or the patient's condition is deteriorating
- review the patient daily to find new features of history, new symptoms, new signs
- need to search for developing focal abscesses - a surgically treatable cause
- stop all drugs where possible
Once a specific diagnosis has been made, the treatment can be directed towards that condition.