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- Elisa Gouvea Bogossian and Fabio Silvio Taccone.
- Department of Intensive Care, Erasmus Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
- Curr Opin Crit Care. 2022 Apr 1; 28 (2): 130137130-137.
Purpose Of ReviewFever is common after acute brain injury and is associated with poor prognosis in this setting.Recent FindingsAchieving normothermia is feasible in patients with ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage and traumatic brain injury. Pharmacological strategies (i.e. paracetamol or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) are frequently ineffective and physical (i.e. cooling devices) therapies are often required. There are no good quality data supporting any benefit from therapeutic strategies aiming at normothermia in all brain injured patients when compared with standard of care, where mild-to-moderate fever is tolerated. However, recent guidelines recommended fever control in this setting.SummaryAs fever is considered a clinically relevant secondary brain damage, we have provided an individualized therapeutic approach to treat it in brain injured patients, which deserved further validation in the clinical setting.Copyright © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
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