Description

This lecture is aimed at primary care practitioners to help provide a framework for investigating patients with persistent pyrexia

Learning Objectives

  • Differentiating pyrexia from hyperthermia
  • Classification of when a patient has a true pyrexia of unknown origin
  • Differentials for pyrexia
  • How to investigate pyrexia
  • The utility of therapeutic trials
  • How to monitor response to therapy in the pyrexic patient