ClerkCast Ep04 - Adult Fever

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