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Does Atelectasis Cause Fever After Surgery? Putting a Damper on Dogma

Sunday, September 22, 2019

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Joseph G. Crompton, Peter D. Crompton, Polly Matzinger

The authors point out that randomized trials of incentive spirometry have failed to mitigate early postoperative fevers, traditionally attributed to atelectasis. They propose that an immune response triggered by injured cells is responsible for noninfectious postoperative fevers, and that this is a natural, self-limited process that requires no intervention.

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