Temperature

The patient's worst temperature in the first 24 hours after admission. Select the value that would generate the highest score from the APACHE Scoring table. A physiological element collected for APACHE II.

Artificial Cooling

Discussed in Nov 21.08_ ICU team meeting:

If a patient is actively cooled for therapeutic reasons, use the most recent temp just prior to start of cooling.

• If no temp is available before cooling initiated, then use a temp at 4 hours after cooling stopped.
  • cardiac arrests may having the cooling protocol applied. See BRR for more information about special tagging of these patients.

If a patient is arriving from the OR cold, use the actual worst temperature since this low temp could also be a negative result of "having been open" for a long time.

• the key to APACHE is not to record iatrogenically induced problem.
• TOstryzniuk 23:26, 4 December 2008 (CST)

• See General Collection Guidelines for Apache II.

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