Journal of anesthesia
Fatal hyperthermia triggered by drug-induced fever in a patient with high-level spinal cord injury: a case report.
Hideaki Ebana, Takahiro Hakozaki, Satoki Inoue
Published: 202610.1007/s00540-026-03665-4
Abstract
We report a rare fatal hyperthermic crisis likely precipitated by drug-induced fever in a muscular, obese patient with chronic high-level spinal cord injury (SCI). Shortly after antibiotic therapy was changed to meropenem, the patient developed sever…
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