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Fever and antipyresis in infection
Author(s) -
Young Paul J,
Saxena Manoj K,
Beasley Richard W
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja11.10502
Subject(s) - antipyretic , medicine , intensive care medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , ambulatory , critically ill , pharmacology , analgesic
Fever is an important mechanism of intrinsic resistance against infectious disease. A variety of studies point to a potential detrimental effect of temperature lowering in infectious disorders, but high‐quality evidence from randomised controlled trials is lacking. In ambulatory care settings, we need to know whether antipyretics influence the severity and duration of illnesses and, in critically ill patients, whether antipyretics affect mortality.