TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Fever A1 - Shah, Samir S. A1 - Alpern, Elizabeth R. A2 - Zaoutis, Lisa B. A2 - Chiang, Vincent W. Y1 - 2017 N1 - T2 - Comprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine, 2e AB - Fever, a pyrogen-mediated increase in body temperature, may have a multitude of disparate causes, including infection, inflammation, or malignancy. Therefore the most important goal when confronted with a febrile patient is to determine the underlying cause. Owing to a differential risk of disease, the cutoff point of abnormal temperature is determined by the age of the child and the presence of any underlying immunodeficiencies. Although there is some overlap, in this chapter the discussion of fever is divided into two age groups: (1) neonates and young infants and (2) older infants and toddlers. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/03 UR - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146118120 ER -