title: When fever becomes an enemy.
abstract: Today fever is being viewed more as a friend rather than an enemy. While this may be true in the normal pediatric setting, fever cannot be considered a friend in the pediatric critical care unit. It is here that fever becomes an enemy. The pediatric critical care nurse must understand the febrile response and recognize the potential detrimental effects of fever in the already compromised child. Fever will be more aggressively managed in the critically ill child.
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Gildea
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003422:Critical Care; D005334:Fever / Q000451:nursing* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*