Risk factors for fever in critically ill patients with acute new-onset stroke

Neurological Research

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 394-399

  Yan, Fuling ^a   Zhang, Daopei ^a   Xu, Haiqing ^a   Guo, Haijian ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Fever; NICU; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLA TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; BRONCHITIS; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARALYSIS; PNEUMONIA; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; VEIN CATHETERIZATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN EDEMA; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CHINA; COMORBIDITY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARALYSIS; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 45849146951     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/174313208X300422     Document Type: Article

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