Fever in trauma patients: Friend or foe?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1062-1065

  Mizushima, Yasuaki ^a   Ueno, Masato ^a   Idoguchi, Koji ^a   Ishikawa, Kazuo ^a   Matsuoka, Tetsuya ^a  

^a National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fever; Infection; Mortality; Multiple logistic regression; Outcome; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTIOUS PNEUMONIA; INJURY; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; COMORBIDITY; INJURY SCALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 73649136515     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181b848fc     Document Type: Article

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