Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Medicine

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1 Clinical Approach to Fever in Critical Care Burke A. Cunha Infectious Disease Division, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, ...

The clinical approach to the noninfectious disorders with fever is usually relatively straightforward because they are readily d ...

Table 3 Clinical Syndromic Approach to Fever in the CCU Either community-acquired or Usual maximum temperature System Community- ...

Table 3 Clinical Syndromic Approach to Fever in the CCU ( Continued ) Either community-acquired or Usual maximum temperature Sys ...

Table 3 Clinical Syndromic Approach to Fever in the CCU ( Continued ) Either community-acquired or Usual maximum temperature Sys ...

Infectious Causes of Fever in the CCU Most infections that are not toxin mediated elicit a febrile response. While all infection ...

manipulation of a colonized/infected surface can induce a transient bacteremia. Such transient bacteremias are unsustained and b ...

elevations from manipulation of a colonized infected mucosal surface persist long after the bacteremia has ceased (1,3–5,24–27). ...

COMMON DIAGNOSTIC PROBLEMS IN THE CCU Drug Fever Drug fevers are so important in the CCU setting because of the multiplicity of ...

Patients with drug fever, i.e., hypersensitivity reaction without rash may present with any degree of fever, but most commonly d ...

diagnostic possibilities have been eliminated in patients who have had a CVC in place for days/weeks. Blood cultures should be o ...

Alternately, after the catheter is removed, another may be placed in a different anatomical location. Femoral catheters are the ...

Double quotidian fevers, i.e., two fever spikes in 24 hours, not artificially induced by antipyretics, should suggest right-side ...

With bacterial meningitis, temperature resolution with appropriate therapy is related to the pathogen causing the meningitis. Me ...

unresponsive to antipseudomonal antimicrobial therapy, i.e., Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) pneumonia. HSV-1 pneumonia is common ...

Noninfectious causes of relapsing fevers include Crohn’s disease, Behc ̧et’s disease, relapsing panniculitis leukoclastic angiit ...

McGowan JE, Rose RC, Jacobs NF, et al. Fever in hospitalized patients. Am J Med 1987; 82:580–586. Ryan M, Levy MM. Clinical rev ...

Cunha BA. Rash and fever in the intensive care unit. In: Abraham E, Vincent JL, Kochanek P, eds. Textbook of Critical Care Medi ...

2 Fever and Rash in Critical Care Lee S. Engel, Charles V. Sanders, and Fred A. Lopez Department of Medicine, Louisiana State Un ...