Mayo Clinic proceedings
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Mayo Clinic proceedings · Jul 1998
Occurrence of potentially detrimental temperature alterations in hospitalized patients at risk for brain injury.
To ascertain the incidence and timing of fever in patients at risk for temperature modulation of brain injury resulting from ischemia or trauma. ⋯ In these hospitalized patients at risk for ongoing brain injury, the incidence of temperature increases within the range reported to worsen neurologic outcome (elevations of 1.0 degree C or more) was very high. The characterization of these potentially injurious, randomly occurring, and traditionally undertreated temperature increases may have implications for the design of future protocols aimed at providing cerebral protection.