Diagnostic implications and clinical consequences of antipyretic therapy.
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Abstract
It has been suggested that the response to antipyretic therapy might differentiate between fevers due to serious illness and fevers caused by less severe disorders; that neoplastic fevers are more responsive to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs than are infectious fevers; that the metabolic costs of fever can exceeds its clinical benefits; that antipyretic therapy can prevent or reverse febrile seizures in children and fever-associated mental dysfunction in frail elderly patients. This article examines the data on which these assertions are based.
Medical subject headings
- Analgesics, Non-Narcotic
- Fever