Evaluation of postoperative fever

Última revisão: 12 Sep 2025
Última atualização: 03 Jun 2024

Resumo

Diagnósticos diferenciais

comuns

  • Pyrexial response to surgery
  • Urinary tract infection
  • Wound infection
  • Pneumonia
  • Superficial thrombophlebitis
  • Catheter-associated intravascular infection
  • Abdominal abscess
  • Foreign body infection
  • Clostridium difficile colitis
  • Sepsis
  • Hematoma
  • Deep venous thrombosis
  • Pulmonary embolism
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Incomuns

  • Drug fever
  • Myocardial infarction
  • Stroke
  • Alcohol withdrawal
  • Fat embolism
  • Transfusion reaction
  • Transplant rejection
  • Toxic shock syndrome
  • Ischemia of operated tissue
  • Gout exacerbation
  • Pseudogout exacerbation
  • Acute pancreatitis
  • Acalculous cholecystitis
  • Seroma
  • Malignant hyperthermia
  • Hyperthyroidism exacerbation
  • Pheochromocytoma exacerbation
  • Adrenal crisis
  • Transfusion-related infection
  • Underlying malignancy
  • Meningitis post neurosurgery
  • Subarachnoid hemorrhage post neurosurgery
  • Otitis media post ENT surgery
  • Sinusitis post nasogastric tube insertion
  • Sialadenitis
  • Cavernous sinus thrombosis post ENT or neurosurgery
  • Osteomyelitis following orthopedic surgery
  • Infective endocarditis following cardiac surgery
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Colaboradores

Autores

Jeff House, DO, FACP

Program Director Internal Medicine

Assistant Professor

University of Florida-Health Science Center

Internal Medicine Residency Program

Jacksonville

FL

Declarações

JH declares that he has no competing interests.

Irene Alexandraki, MD, MPH, FACP

Professor of Medicine

Florida State University

College of Medicine

Tallahassee

FL

Declarações

IA declares that she has no competing interests.

Revisores

A. Sahib El-Radhi, MRCPCH, FRCPCH, DCH, PhD

Consultant Paediatrician

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Chelsfield Park Hospital

Chelsfield

Orpington

UK

Declarações

ASER declares that he has no competing interests.

John M. Embil, MD, FRCPC

Consultant

Infectious Diseases

Associate Professor

Section of Infectious Diseases

Department of Medicine

University of Manitoba

Director

Infection Prevention and Control Unit Health Sciences Centre

Winnipeg

Manitoba

Canada

Declarações

JME declares that he has no competing interests.

Stephen G. Baum, MD

Professor of Medicine

Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Bronx

NY

Declarações

SGB declares that he has no competing interests.

Peer reviewer acknowledgements

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Disclosures

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Referências

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Principais artigos

McLaren AC, Lundy DW. AAOS systematic literature review: summary on the management of surgical site infections. J Am Acad Orthop Surg. 2019 Aug 15;27(16):e717-20.Texto completo  Resumo

McDonald LC, Gerding DN, Johnson S, et al. Clinical practice guidelines for clostridium difficile infection in adults and children: 2017 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). Clin Infect Dis. 2018 Mar 19;66(7):e1-48.Texto completo  Resumo

O'Grady NP, Alexander E, Alhazzani W, et al. Society of Critical Care Medicine and the Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines for evaluating new fever in adult patients in the ICU. Crit Care Med. 2023 Nov 1;51(11):1570-86.Texto completo  Resumo

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