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Aug 21, 2008 · The impact of fever on patients in a neurocritical care unit has been evaluated; after controlling for severity of illness, diagnosis, age, and complications, fever was found to be strongly associated with an increased length of intensive care unit (ICU) and hospital stay as well as a higher mortality rate and worse overall outcome. 1 These findings are consistent with the meta-analysis by ...
- Fever in Acute Stroke Worsens Prognosis | Stroke
High fever (maximum temperature recorded during the first 7...
- Fever in Acute Stroke Worsens Prognosis | Stroke
Nov 1, 1995 · High fever (maximum temperature recorded during the first 7 days ≥37.9°C) was an independent factor for a worse prognosis, with an OR of 3.4 (95% CI, 1.2 to 9.5). The OR of dying within 10 days versus dying between 11 and 30 days was 4.9 (95% CI, 1.2 to 25.2) in patients with high fever with respect to all other patients.
- Giuseppe Azzimondi, Leona Bassein, Francesco Nonino, Laila Fiorani, Luca Vignatelli, Giuseppe Re, Ro...
- 1995
Conclusions—In the pooled analyses covering 14 431 patients with stroke and other brain injuries, fever is consistently associated with worse outcomes across multiple outcome measures. (Stroke. 2008;39:3029-3035.) Key Words: fever meta-analysis outcome stroke traumatic brain injury F ever is a common condition in patients with stroke and
Results: Fever or higher body temperature was significantly associated with worse outcome in every measure studied. Relative risk of worse outcome with fever was: mortality, 1.5; Glasgow Outcome Scale, 1.3; Barthel Index, 1.9; modified Rankin Scale, 2.2; Canadian Stroke Scale, 1.4; intensive care length of stay, 2.8; and hospital length of stay, 3.2.
Between 40% and 61% of patients who experience stroke develop fever, and those patients with fever are far more likely to die within the first 10 days after a stroke than those with lower temperatures. 2, 3 Clinical data support that body temperature higher than 37.5°C significantly correlates with poor outcomes. 2, 4 – 7 This was confirmed ...
Sep 1, 2008 · In the pooled analyses covering 14431 patients with stroke and other brain injuries, fever is consistently associated with worse outcomes across multiple outcome measures. Discover the world's ...
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Nov 1, 2008 · In the pooled analyses covering 14 431 patients with stroke and other brain injuries, fever is consistently associated with worse outcomes across multiple outcome measures. Background and Purpose— Many studies associate fever with poor outcome in patients with neurological injury, but this relationship is blurred by divergence in populations and outcome measures. We sought to incorporate all ...
