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Body temperature as a nursing problem: concepts and regulative mechanisms

The present study showes the body temperature regulation mechanisms, the conceptions related to the temperature and their alterations and describes pyrexia and malignant hyperthermia phenomena.

Body temperature; Fever; Nursing care; Regulation


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