Fever: definitions, pattern -- Hyperthermia, classification, definitions -- Pathogenesis -- Temperature Measurement -- Fever in Common Infectious Diseases -- Fever in non-Infectious Diseases -- Febrile Seizures -- Hypothermia -- Is Fever Beneficial? -- Management of Fever -- Fever and Complementary Medicine -- Differential Diagnosis of Febrile Diseases -- History of fever -- Glossary of the Term Fever
Summary
The book covers all the different types of fever and its possible complications discussed the management of fever with guidelines on antipyretics and their side effects and differential diagnosis of fever, with problem-setting and solving as a case presentation. The second edition of this well-received book has been fully updated to include exciting new information of the pathogenesis of fever, including functions of interleukin and all the latest guidelines from NICE and Cochrane Library, as well as all the most up-to-date information and guidelines on febrile seizures
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 18, 2019)
