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Highest temp

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

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    107 fever rectally. Lowest 91.0 on a drunkard.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.)

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    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.

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

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

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

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

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    Well I guess there is alot of brain damage in Chicago. I have seen it many times working in PEDs ER.

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