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A. Very High Fever (>102° F; >38.9°C)

  1. Hyperthermia / Heat Stroke
  2. Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
  3. Severe Hyperthyroidism
  4. Meningitis (sepsis occasionally gives very high fevers)
  5. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
  6. Drug Reaction
  7. Cerebral Malaria
  8. Heat Stroke
  9. Still's Disease
  10. Viral Exanthem (usually only in children)
  11. Sepsis / Bactermia
  12. Pneumonia (Viral > Bacterial for >102°F)
  13. Infected Abcess
  14. Serotonin Syndrome [1]

B. Fever in the Intensive Care Unit (Table 2, Ref [2])

  1. Infected intravascular catheters
  2. Sinusitis
  3. Otitis Media
  4. Acalculous cholecystitis
  5. Drug fever
  6. Pulmonary emboli
  7. Deep venous thrombosis
  8. Central fever (in head trauma patients)
  9. Clostridium difficile colitis
  10. Postcardiotomy syndrome
  11. Secondary infection by resistant organisms
  12. Ventilator associated pneumonia
  13. Fungal infection
  14. Neuroleptic malignant syndrome

Resources

calcCelsius ==> Fahrenheit

References

  1. Which SSRI? 2003. Med Let. 45(117):93
  2. Hotchkiss RS and Karl IE. 2003. NEJM. 348(2):138 abstract