Highest temp

[emtb2rn, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

106.6 rectal. Temp did just fine with tylenol. The sepsis was a whole 'nother issue.

Let's hear 'em...

[ED Nurse, RN]

107 fever rectally. Lowest 91.0 on a drunkard.

[ER(notso)n00b, ASN, RN]

108.9 rectal. She was frying on some rave drug cocktail. Lowest was 89.3. Septic SNF pt.

[meanmaryjean, DNP, RN]

108 rectally. Hydrancephaly kid. Did it all the time. He had the most devoted mommy ever. He passed at age 3 and I always have hoped she had another child to love.

[owlhaveyouknow]

Highest was 106.7 on a one week post surgical patient with sepsis. Developed DIC and died. Lowest I've seen was 86 on a patient would got drunk and fell into a creek and stayed there for few hours.

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

Highest was 109. Had to bring them up to the cardiac OR for cardiopulmonary bypass to cool them down. No idea how she was mentally afterwards. Coldest is around 71-72, but we do that intentionally when we have to do circulatory arrest for aortic arch surgery. (Sorry, not ER but OR here, but I'm intruding on the forum.)

[ICUNurseStat]

109.2 rectally, can't remember if he was a TBI or an anoxic injury but absolutely nothing would bring it down and he died the next day.

[Scarlettz, BSN, RN]

Wow, I think 103.something to 104. That scared the hell out of me, lol!

[SassyTachyRN]

105.7 in a school setting

[Lev, MSN, RN, NP]

Lowest was room temp whatever that was. He was dead. Never took the temp but that was probably the lowest.

[Dacatster, ADN]

107 rectal on a babe. Did just fine. Seems like kids can handle higher temps then adults

[Lev, MSN, RN, NP]

Not without brain damage they can't...High temps cause enzyme degradation. Even if they looked fine...