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Postoperative Fever

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Postoperative fever is defined as a temperature greater than 38°C (100.4o F) and is an elevation of the patients’ normal temperature.

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 6900 Georgia Ave, Washington, DC, 20307, USA

    Barbara A. Cooper

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  1. Downstate Medical Center, State University of New York (SUNY), Hicks St. 339, Brooklyn, 11201, New York, USA

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Cooper, B.A., Fair, N.C. (2011). Postoperative Fever. In: Cohn, S. (eds) Perioperative Medicine. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-498-2_33

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