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Abstract
Fever is considered a key actor of innate immunity aimed to fight infection. A new investigation reports an association of the use of antipyretic drugs with poorer outcome among patients with sepsis. In contrast, high temperature in non-infectious intensive care patients is associated with higher mortality.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22436665 PMCID: PMC3681366 DOI: 10.1186/cc11237
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Crit Care ISSN: 1364-8535 Impact factor: 9.097