Fever and standard monitoring parameters of ICU patients: A descriptive study

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 281-288

  Kiekkas, Panagiotis ^a   Brokalaki, Hero ^a   Manolis, Evangelos ^a   Askotiri, Paraskevi ^b   Karga, Maria ^a   Baltopoulos, George I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Arterial blood pressure; Arterial oxygen saturation; Fever; Heart rate; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APACHE; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; FEMALE; FEVER; GREECE; HEART RATE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THERMOGRAPHY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; APACHE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; CRITICAL CARE; FEMALE; FEVER; GREECE; HEART RATE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34548207708     PISSN: 09643397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2007.04.001     Document Type: Article

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