Links To And Excerpts From Dr Farkas’ IBCC Chapter And Cast: Approach to new fever or rigors in the ICU patient

In this post I link to and excerpt from Dr. Josh Farkas’ Internet Book Of Critical Care [Link is to the IBCC Table Of Contents] chapter & cast, “Approach to new fever or rigors in the ICU patient” [Link to the podcast] [Link to the show notes].

Here are excerpts:

CONTENTS

• Definition & classification of fever
• Common causes of fever
• Evaluation
• Management
• Specific fever types
  • Drug fever
  • Neurogenic fever
• Summary box
• Podcast
• Questions & discussion
• Pitfalls
• PDF of this chapter (or create customized PDF)