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Acetaminophen in the ICU: Mixed Findings

hcplive.com August 24, 2017

Does having a fever help fight infection? Patients who got acetaminophen to relieve fever while in intensive care units did about as well as patients who got a placebo when it came to mortality. But in a puzzling finding, survivors who got the drug tended to have shorter ICU stays while those who died and got acetaminophen had longer ICU stays.

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