Diagnosis and management of temperature abnormality in ICUs: A EUROBACT investigators' survey

Critical Care

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Niven, Daniel J ^a   Laupland, Kevin B ^a,b,c   Tabah, Alexis ^c,d,e   Vesin, Aurélien ^c   Rello, Jordi ^f,g   Koulenti, Despoina ^h   Dimopoulos, George ^h   de Waele, Jan ⁱ   Timsit, Jean Francois ^c,j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b ROYAL INLAND HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c INSTITUT ALBERT BONNIOT   (France)

^d ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^h NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

ⁱ GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^j GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

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Author keywords

bacteremia; Fever; hypothermia; intensive care unit; sepsis; septic shock

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; AXILLA TEMPERATURE; BLADDER; BODY TEMPERATURE DISORDER; BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EUROPE; FEVER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIVER FAILURE; MOUTH TEMPERATURE; NORTH AMERICA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SOUTH AMERICA; THERMOMETER; TYMPANIC TEMPERATURE; BACTEREMIA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HYPOTHERMIA; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA;

ACETAMINOPHEN; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTIPYRETICS; BACTEREMIA; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEVER; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; THERMOMETERS;

EID: 84891930352     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc13153     Document Type: Article

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