Pediatric febrile seizure
Educational use only. Not clinically reviewed2-year-old boy for calm pediatric febrile seizure recognition, recovery reassessment, red-flag review, and caregiver-centered handoff. About 8 simulated minutes.
What you will practise
- Connect the supplied event, recovery, fever, breathing, circulation, and whole-child findings.
- Recognize a febrile-seizure pattern with simple features to date while keeping dangerous alternatives open.
- Activate experienced fever-source, serious-illness, neurological, and supportive-care ownership.
- Review infection, recovery, complex features, recurrence, alternatives, caregiver safety, and escalation in parallel.
- After elapsed qualified review, compare the fixed recovery and fever trajectory without declaring the illness resolved.
- Hand off fever source, serious-illness guards, recovery, recurrence, caregiver safety, and named ownership.
Review and sources
Not clinically reviewed. No clinician has signed this scenario.
- Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne. Clinical Practice Guideline: Febrile seizure. Last updated February 2026; consulted 2026-08-26.
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Fever in under 5s: assessment and initial management. NICE guideline NG143. Published 2019; last updated 2021; last reviewed 2025. Recommendations 1.2, 1.5.12-1.5.15, 1.6.1-1.6.6, and 1.7.2-1.7.3.
- World Health Organization. Paediatric emergency triage, assessment and treatment: care of critically-ill children. Updated guideline. 2016. ISBN 978-92-4-151021-9. Section 3.3.4 and Recommendation 3.4.
Open Sim Lab is an educational simulator, not for clinical use. It is not a clinical decision-support tool, not a dosing calculator, and is not validated for any decision affecting a real patient.