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Pyrexia

 

 

 

Intended Learning Outcomes

Pyrexia

  1. Assess fever in the ICU and initiate an appropriate evaluation
  2. Determine common causes of fever in the critically ill patient
  3. Manage special forms of fever
  4. Decide how and when to treat fever


 

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Relevant Competencies from CoBaTrICE

Pyrexia

  • 2.2 Undertakes timely and appropriate investigations
  • 2.5 Obtains appropriate microbiological samples and interprets results
  • 2.7 Interprets chest x-rays
  • 2.8 Liaises with radiologists to organise and interpret clinical imaging
  • 2.10 Integrates clinical findings with laboratory investigations to form a differential diagnosis