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The Evaluation of Fever in the Intensive Care Unit

1991; Elsevier BV; Volume: 100; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1378/chest.100.1.213

1931-3543

David E. Clarke, Judy Kimelman, Thomas A. Raffin,

Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment

Fever is a common complaint of patients seeking medical care. Depending on the cause of the fever, treatment can be as simple as reassurance or it can necessitate immediate admission to the intensive care unit (ICU). Hospitalized patients often develop fever. Two large studies reported fever occurring in 29 percent 1 McGowan JE Rose RC Jacobs NF Schaberg DR Haley RW Fever in hospitalized patients. Am J Med. 1987; 82: 580-586 Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (43) Google Scholar and 36 percent 3 Donowitz LG Wenzel RP Hoyt JW High risk of hospital-acquired infection in the ICU patient. Crit Care Med. 1982; 10: 355-357 Crossref PubMed Scopus (201) Google Scholar of medical inpatients. Mortality in those patients who developed fever was 13 percent as compared with 3 percent of those patients who remained afebrile. 2 Bor DH Makadon HJ Friedland G Dasse P Komaroff AL Aronson MD Fever in hospitalized medical patients: characteristics and significance. J Gen Intern Med. 1988; 3: 119-125 Crossref PubMed Scopus (36) Google Scholar