ClerkCast Ep04 - Adult Fever - a podcast by The CanadiEM.org Team

from 2020-05-11T13:00

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Today we are sitting down with Dr Alim Pardhan. Dr Pardhan is the FRCP EM program director at McMaster University, Hamilton General Hospital ED side lead, and a passionate medical educator.

Your key takeaways from this episode are:

  1. Understanding the mechanisms behind fever and hyperthermia
  2. The causes of hyperthermia - think drugs, CNS infections, thyroid storm, and environmental exposure
  3. Five big, bad, and deadly causes of fever in our patients in the ED - necrotizing fasciitis! Endocarditis! Meningitis! Ascending cholangitis! Sepsis!
  4. Identification and management of the patient with sepsis

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