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Clinical Manual of Fever in Children

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  • #x203A; Hyperthermia is a peripherally (skin and muscle) mediated elevation of body temperature, which greatly differs from fever. Temperature is uncontrolled because the hypothalamic centre is not involved.

  • › Hyperthermia, in contrast to fever, is uncommon, but it has to be considered in the differential diagnosis of elevated body temperature.

  • › Although hyperthermia and fever cannot usually be differentiated clinically on the basis of the height of temperature, a temperature above 42°C suggests hyperthermia. A normal temperature excludes fever but not hyperthermia.

  • › Hyperthermia has different causes, symptoms and signs than fever. Its management is specific and is also different from that of fever, e.g. antipyretics are ineffective while physical methods are effective.

  • › Drugs play a major role in causing hyperthermia. In contrast to fever hyperthermia can largely be prevented.

  • › Hyperthermia has many causes of which malignant hyperthermia (prototype of increased heat production) and heat stroke (prototype of decreased heat production) are the most common and serious causes.

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  1. Consultant Paediatrician & Honorary Senior Lecturer, Medical School Denver Close Petts Wood, Orpington Kent, BR6 OSB, UK

    A. Sahib El-Radhi FRCPCH, MRCP,Ph.D, DCH

  2. Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology Vice-Chairman, Department of Neurology Chief, Section of Pediatric Neurology, The Medical College of Georgia, 1120 15th Street Augusta, Georgia, 30912, USA

    James Carroll MD

  3. Division of Cell and Molecular Biology Institute of Child Health, Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Infection and Immunology, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH, UK

    Nigel Klein MBBS, BSc, PhD, MRCP, FRCPCH

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(2009). Hyperthermia. In: El-Radhi, A.S., Carroll, J., Klein, N. (eds) Clinical Manual of Fever in Children. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78598-9_2

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