Association of body temperature and antipyretic treatments with mortality of critically ill patients with and without sepsis: multi-centered prospective observational study

and Antipyretic in Critically ill patients Evaluation (FACE) Study Group, Fever; Ho Lee, Byung; Inui, Daisuke; Young Suh, Gee; Yeol Kim, Jae; Young Kwon, Jae; Park, Jisook; Tada, Keiichi; Tanaka, Keiji; Ietsugu, Kenichi; Uehara, Kenji; Dote, Kentaro; Tajimi, Kimitaka; Morita, Kiyoshi; Matsuo, Koichi; Hoshino, Koji; Hosokawa, Koji; Hyun Lee, Kook; Min Lee, Kyoung; Takatori, Makoto; Nishimura, Masaji; Sanui, Masamitsu; Ito, Masanori; Egi, Moritoki; Honda, N; Okayama, Naoko; Shime, Nobuaki; Tsuruta, Ryosuke; Nogami, Satoshi; Yoon, Seok-Hwa; Fujitani, Shigeki; Ok Koh, Shin; Takeda, Shinhiro; Saito, Shinsuke; Jin Hong, Sung; Yamamoto, Takeshi; Yokoyama, Takeshi; Yamaguchi, Takuhiro; Nishiyama, Tomoki; Igarashi, Toshiko; Kakihana, Yasuyuki; Koh, Younsuck

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Association of body temperature and antipyretic treatments with mortality of critically ill patients with and without sepsis: multi-centered prospective observational study

Published in Critical Care • Feb 28, 2012

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Fever and Antipyretic in Critically ill patients Evaluation (FACE) Study Group

Byung Ho Lee

Daisuke Inui

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Fever is frequently observed in critically ill patients. An independent association of fever with increased mortality has been observed in non-neurological critically ill patients with mixed febrile etiology. The association of fever and antipyretics with mortality, however, may be dif...

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Medicine

Observational study

Critically ill

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