Diagnosaurus
Nosocomial fever
DDx
- Noninfectious: drug fever, postoperative atelectasis or tissue necrosis, hematoma, pancreatitis, pulmonary embolus, myocardial infarction, ischemic colitis
- Urinary tract infection (UTI)
- Pneumonia
- Bacteremia, eg, indwelling catheter, wound, abscess, pneumonia, genitourinary (GU) or gastrointestinal (GI) tract
- Wound infection, eg, decubitus ulcer
- C. difficile colitis
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Last updated: December 1, 2014
Citation
Zeiger, Roni F.. "Nosocomial Fever." Diagnosaurus, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. Emergency Central, emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114422/all/Nosocomial_fever.
Zeiger RFR. Nosocomial fever. Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114422/all/Nosocomial_fever. Accessed September 29, 2023.
Zeiger, R. F. (2014). Nosocomial fever. In Diagnosaurus (4th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114422/all/Nosocomial_fever
Zeiger RFR. Nosocomial Fever [Internet]. In: Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. [cited 2023 September 29]. Available from: https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114422/all/Nosocomial_fever.
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