Does temperature make a difference? It depends on how hot (or cold), for how long, and in what clinical context

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 326-327

  Shah, Nirav G ^a   Hasday, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BODY TEMPERATURE; COLD; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DATA BASE; EDITORIAL; FEVER; HEAT; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOTHERMIA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PERITONITIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE;

EID: 84055192821     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182372bbb     Document Type: Editorial

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