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Can fever melt the brain?

Apr 3, 2015

Can a fever get so high that it causes brain damage? That question was posed to us by a listen with a recent patient whose temperature reached 106.9 Fahrenheit. Andy Sloas from the PEM ED podcast returns to ERCast to gives his take on cooling, workup, and the difference between heat exposure and infectious fever.

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