Post operative fever is common in surgery and should ALWAYS be a cause for concern!

The timing fever is the most important question you can ask!

Timing will give you almost all of the information you need I and help you ask the right questions.


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Timing affects the differential diagnosis of fever. When should you be concerned, when should you be really concerned and when can you relax!

In this tutorial I'm going to teach you about post operative fever and help you develop a differential diagnosis of fever based on TIMING.


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Timing is everything when it comes to fever and there are four periods following an operation that we're going to break down:

1. Immediate Hours
2. Early Day 03
3. Late Day 430
4. Delayed Greater than Day 30


Check out these AMAZING timestamps on post operative fever and fast forward if you need to:

Start 00:00
Four Phases of Post Operative Fever 01:09
Immediate Post Operative Fever 01:50
Early Post Operative Fever 05:30
Late Post Operative Fever 08:53
Delayed Post Operative Fever 11:25
The 9 Ws 11:55

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