Overview
- Approaches the topic of fever in a uniquely broad manner, touching on topics such as measurement accuracy
- Provides a review of the latest research on fever and body temperature
- Includes hypothetical scenarios of clinical practice to aid in learning and encourage reflection
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Reviews
“The book is written in an understandable, interesting manner suitable for a wide range of readers including undergraduate medical students and various health care professionals … . Understanding Fever and Body Temperature: A Cross-disciplinary Approach to Clinical Practice is a well-written, concise, worth-reading book that provides valuable information about the regulation and assessment of body temperature and the pathophysiology and clinical implications of fever.” (Mohamed Mohamed Tawfik,Anesthesia & Analgesia, Vol. 130 (6), June, 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Märta Sund Levander, RNT, PhD, is Associate Professor of Nursing at Linköping University in Linköping, Sweden
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Fever and Body Temperature
Book Subtitle: A Cross-disciplinary Approach to Clinical Practice
Editors: Ewa Grodzinsky, Märta Sund Levander
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21886-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21885-0Published: 04 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21888-1Published: 04 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-21886-7Published: 22 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 174
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Care Management, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Nursing, Primary Care Medicine, Primary Care Medicine