Is fanning therapy effective in childhood pyrexias
- Report By: Walid Alsalim - SpR Norwich
- Search checked by Mohamed Fadel - SpR Paediatrics, Peterborough
- Institution: Norwich
- Current web editor: Minnie Alexander - Senior Information Officer
- Date Submitted: 25th March 2001
- Date Completed: 25th March 2001
- Last Modified: 12th April 2002
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Status:
Blue (submitted but not checked)
Three Part Question
IN [Children presenting to A&E with an infection associated pyrexia] IS [fanning therapy plus antipyretics better than antipyretics alone] AT [rapidly reducing the temperature to normal range]Clinical Scenario
A 3-year-old child attended A&E with high fever for 24 hrs. Examination showed congested throat, runny nose and red tympanic membranes. You make a clinical diagnosis of URTI ? viral. You prescribed antipyretic medicine but a fan was on near by child's bed. So you wonder whether any evidence that fanning will be of additional benefit to antipyretic therapy.Search Strategy
Medline 1966- 03/2002 using the Ovid interface.[(exp fever OR fever$.mp)] AND [(exp acetaminophen OR paracetamol$.mp)] AND [(exp fanning OR fanning$.mp)] AND [(exp Ibuprofen OR Ibuprofen$.mp)] AND [(exp analgesics, non-narcotics OR antipyretic$.mp)].LIMIT to Human, English and Children.