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Good and bad fever

Fever is considered a key actor of innate immunity aimed to fight infection. A new investigation reports an association of the use of antipyretic drugs with poorer outcome among patients with sepsis. In contrast, high temperature in non-infectious intensive care patients is associated with higher mo...

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Autor principal: Cavaillon, Jean-Marc
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3681366/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22436665
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc11237
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spelling pubmed-36813662013-06-25 Good and bad fever Cavaillon, Jean-Marc Crit Care Commentary Fever is considered a key actor of innate immunity aimed to fight infection. A new investigation reports an association of the use of antipyretic drugs with poorer outcome among patients with sepsis. In contrast, high temperature in non-infectious intensive care patients is associated with higher mortality. BioMed Central 2012 2012-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3681366/ /pubmed/22436665 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc11237 Text en Copyright ©2012 BioMed Central Ltd
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