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Every day, emergency departments and acute medical units all over the world receive and assess thousands of patients. Most are stable, but a few require immediate stabilization. To identify these, all patients are routinely triaged and have vital signs measured. Our group has shown that thermographic images of the face can be an alternative method for identifying patients at increased risk of 30-day mortality. In our previous studies, the thermographic images were taken after the patients had been inside for at least 30 minutes. However, to identify patients at risk, the images have to be available as quickly as triage, i.e. at the door when the patient arrives. Therefore, we have performed a small study, with the aim of illustrating the effect of such heat-gradients on thermal images of the face.
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Research has shown an association between body temperature, heart rate and respiratory rate. We speculated that antipyretics could influence this. We performed this study with the aim of clarifying the association.We included 1,612 acutely admitted medically ill patients and registered their use of antipyretics. We performed crude and adjusted linear regression analyses. In adjusted analysis, we found that heart rate increased with 7.3 (95% CI: 4.5, 10.1) beats/min/℃ in patients who were not on antipyretics and 10.0 (95% CI: 6.2, 13.9) beats/min/℃ in patients who were.Respiratory rate increased 0.4 (95% CI: -0.2, 0.9) and 1.5 (95% CI: 0.6, 2.3), respectively. Our data shows that use of antipyretics affect the association between temperature, heart rate and respiratory rate positively. Full Text File size: 285 KB Downloads: 1149...
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