1) The patient presented with hyperthermia following craniotomy surgery likely due to the post-surgical inflammatory response.
2) Over 8 hours of nursing interventions including monitoring vital signs, encouraging fluids, rest, and tepid sponge baths aimed to reduce the patient's temperature and identify factors contributing to hyperthermia.
3) The interventions were deemed effective, appropriate, accepted, and sufficient as the patient demonstrated a gradual reduction in temperature and improved comfort over the evaluation period with economic use of resources.
1) The patient presented with hyperthermia following craniotomy surgery likely due to the post-surgical inflammatory response.
2) Over 8 hours of nursing interventions including monitoring vital signs, encouraging fluids, rest, and tepid sponge baths aimed to reduce the patient's temperature and identify factors contributing to hyperthermia.
3) The interventions were deemed effective, appropriate, accepted, and sufficient as the patient demonstrated a gradual reduction in temperature and improved comfort over the evaluation period with economic use of resources.
1) The patient presented with hyperthermia following craniotomy surgery likely due to the post-surgical inflammatory response.
2) Over 8 hours of nursing interventions including monitoring vital signs, encouraging fluids, rest, and tepid sponge baths aimed to reduce the patient's temperature and identify factors contributing to hyperthermia.
3) The interventions were deemed effective, appropriate, accepted, and sufficient as the patient demonstrated a gradual reduction in temperature and improved comfort over the evaluation period with economic use of resources.
1) The patient presented with hyperthermia following craniotomy surgery likely due to the post-surgical inflammatory response.
2) Over 8 hours of nursing interventions including monitoring vital signs, encouraging fluids, rest, and tepid sponge baths aimed to reduce the patient's temperature and identify factors contributing to hyperthermia.
3) The interventions were deemed effective, appropriate, accepted, and sufficient as the patient demonstrated a gradual reduction in temperature and improved comfort over the evaluation period with economic use of resources.
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The key takeaways are that fever is a common postoperative complication that can have infectious or non-infectious causes. It is important to systematically evaluate and manage fever on a case-by-case basis.
Nursing interventions for fever include encouraging fluid intake, administering tepid sponge baths, avoiding alcohol which can elevate temperature, and administering antipyretics as ordered.
The goals of fever management are to reduce the patient's temperature, prevent dehydration, limit discomfort, and monitor for underlying causes of the fever.
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