Speaker: Nicholas Haddad, MD, FACP, FIDSA

Title: When Fever Isn't Infection

Format: Virtual

Objectives:

• Discussing fever as a broad diagnostic challenge and not necessarily always indicative of infection
• Overviewing febrile syndromes in different disease conditions
• Highlighting disorders presenting with fever and skin manifestations
• Identifying fevers associated with drugs, connective tissue disorders and other auto-immune conditions
• Streamlining the above, in the context of negative infectious work up, to avoid the prolonged use of antibiotics