Summary
Differentials
Common
- Reação pirética à cirurgia
- Infecção do trato urinário
- Infecção da ferida
- Pneumonia
- Tromboflebite superficial
- Infecção intravascular associada ao cateter
- Abscesso abdominal
- Infecção por corpo estranho
- Colite por Clostridium difficile
- Sepse
- Hematoma
- Trombose venosa profunda
- Embolia pulmonar
Uncommon
- Febre medicamentosa
- Infarto do miocárdio
- Acidente vascular cerebral (AVC)
- Abstinência alcoólica
- Embolia gordurosa
- Reação transfusional
- Rejeição de transplante
- Síndrome do choque tóxico
- Isquemia do tecido operado
- Exacerbação da gota
- Exacerbação da pseudogota
- Pancreatite aguda
- Colecistite acalculosa
- Seroma
- Hipertermia maligna
- Exacerbação do hipertireoidismo
- Exacerbação do feocromocitoma
- Crise adrenal
- Infecção relacionada à transfusão
- Neoplasia subjacente
- Meningite após neurocirurgia
- Hemorragia subaracnoide após uma neurocirurgia
- Otite média após cirurgia otorrinolaringológica
- Sinusite pós-inserção de sonda nasogástrica
- Sialadenite
- Trombose do seio cavernoso após cirurgia otorrinolaringológica ou neurocirurgia
- Osteomielite após cirurgia ortopédica
- Endocardite infecciosa após cirurgia cardíaca
Contributors
Authors
Jeff House, DO, FACP
Program Director Internal Medicine
Assistant Professor
University of Florida-Health Science Center
Internal Medicine Residency Program
Jacksonville
FL
Disclosures
JH declares that he has no competing interests.
Irene Alexandraki, MD, MPH, FACP
Professor of Medicine
Florida State University
College of Medicine
Tallahassee
FL
Disclosures
IA declares that she has no competing interests.
Peer reviewers
A. Sahib El-Radhi, MRCPCH, FRCPCH, DCH, PhD
Consultant Paediatrician
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Chelsfield Park Hospital
Chelsfield
Orpington
UK
Disclosures
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
Disclosures
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
Disclosures
SGB declares that he has no competing interests.
References
Key articles
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.Full text Abstract
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.Full text Abstract
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.Full text Abstract
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