In this particular article, the objective was to determine the effects of fever (temperatures above 38.3 degrees C) and nursing interventions to reduce its effects on client hemodynamics and oxygenation in surgical intensive care unit clients presenting febrile. Çelik et al.’s study (2011) took a retrospective and descriptive approach to a sample of 53 febrile clients from one hospital facility. ICU clientele are more likely to be in a febrile state when compared to their counterparts of hospitalized clients. Although fever is more likely due to infection, ICU clients may become febrile from numerous noninfectious …show more content…
near drowning, vasculitis, gastric aspiration) or nonpulmonary (e.g. sepsis, major trauma with shock, obstetric events) insults, with sepsis the leading cause. Associated risk factors for ARDS are: Afro-Caribbean ethnicity, age, chronic alcohol abuse, liver disease, pregnancy, obesity, immunosuppression, and genetic predisposition (Liew and Martin, 2014). ARDS is believed to be a direct or indirect injury to the lungs that triggers an inflammatory response, releasing numerous cytokines and activating neutrophils and alveolar macrophages (Liew and Martin, 2014). This increases capillary permeability and damages the alveolar epithelium, resulting in vast alveolar edema and surfactant production compromise (Liew and Martin, 2014). Clinical symptomatology includes acutely progressive dyspnea, tachypnea, and hypoxemia (Liew and Martin,