Originally published by our sister publication Infectious Disease Special Edition
By Marie Rosenthal, MS
What is the best way to measure temperature in an ICU patient with new-onset fever? Should that fever patient receive antipyretics? Should you assume the patient has an infection? Naomi P. O’Grady, MD, FCCM, FIDSA, answered these and other questions addressed in the recent fever guidelines during the 2024 Critical Care Congress, in Phoenix.
“Not all febrile episodes require an