While elderly patients are at high risk of fatality, research concerning COVID-19 has largely
been done on clarifying the clinical features. As such, the present work aims to identify risk …

Normal oral, rectal, tympanic and axillary body temperature in adult men and women: a
systematic literature review The purpose of this study was to investigate normal body …

The need to measure body temperature contactless and quickly during the COVID-19
pandemic emergency has led to the widespread use of infrared thermometers, thermal …

Objective To estimate individual level body temperature and to correlate it with other
measures of physiology and health. Design Observational cohort study. Setting Outpatient …

Residents of long-term care facilities (LTCFs) are at great risk for infection. Most residents
are older and have multiple comorbidities that complicate recognition of infection; for …

Sepsis is defined as life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a host response to
infection and represents a spectrum of disease severity ranging from bacteremia to septic …

The elderly population will grow rapidly over the next 25 years. The majority of patients with
serious or life-threatening infections will be old. It is imperative that primary care physicians …

Infections in the elderly, similar to other acute illnesses in this age group, may present in
atypical, nonclassical fashions. Fever, the cardinal sign of infection, may be absent or …

The incidence of severe sepsis and septic shock is increasing in the older population
leading to increased admissions to the intensive care units (ICUs). The elderly are …

Objective: We investigated the epidemiology of ventilator-associated pneumonia in elderly
ICU patients. More precisely, we assessed prevalence, risk factors, signs and symptoms …