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Posts Tagged ‘intensive care units’

Must-Read Piece: “Fever of Too Many Origins”

Paul Sax • January 21st, 2013

Categories: Health Care, Infectious Diseases, Patient Care

(9 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

Every so often a commentary gets something just right, and fortunately we have an example in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine. Entitled “Fever of Unknown Origin or Fever of Too Many Origins?”, it’s the best depiction I’ve read about doing ID consults in the intensive care unit (ICU). The author, Harold Horowitz (who has [...]