CRACKCast E012 - Fever
CanadiEM Podcasts: CRACKCast, ClerkCast, CarmsCast, First Year Diaries · Brent Thoma
March 14, 201619m 38s
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Show Notes
This episode covers Chapter 12 of Rosen's Emergency Medicine.
Episode Overview:
- Describe the physiologic mechanism of increasing the body's temperature
- What is the change in HR and RR with every increase of 1°C core body temperature?
- What is the emergency medicine specific approach to defining the infectious differential?
- List 15 causes of non-infectious hyperthermia
Wisecracks
- Description of fever vs. hyperthermia
- Approach to a patient with an elevated temperature
- Points on fever in the elderly, chronically ill, or immunosuppressed
- What is the most accurate way of measuring core body temperature?