The relationship between body temperature, heart rate and respiratory rate in acute patients at admission to a medical care unit

Abstract

An increase in body temperature (BT) is followed by an increase in heart rate (HR) and respiratory rate (RR). Only a few studies have explored the magnitude of this increase. These studies all included young healthy study subjects not taking any medicine that influenced the cardiovascular system. We wished to investigate this relationship in a study group more representative of the acute patients we meet in an emergency department.