CRACKCast E012 - Fever

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?