Postoperative Fever: To What Is the Body Really Responding?

AORN Journal

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 983-992

  Ballestas, Helen C ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; FEVER; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; NURSING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

ALGORITHMS; FEVER; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 36549001163     PISSN: 00012092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aorn.2007.08.018     Document Type: Article

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