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E. Postoperative fever. The temporal relationship of the fever to the surgery may provide a clue to the primary source of the infection (4).
1. If fever duration is less than 48 hours, consider atelectasis of the lung.
heat: Fever (Fever of unknown origin, Drug-induced fever, Postoperative fever) - Hyperhidrosis (e.g., Sleep Hyperhidrosis; "Sweating") - Hyperpyrexia - Hyperthermia
cold: Chills
Aches/Pains ...
from an ovarian teratoma, significant pelvic bleeding [including from an ovarian cyst], use of surgical adjuvants to establish hemostasis by promoting thrombosis), and the clinical postoperative course (including any history of postoperative fever, ...
 See also: Bleeding, Fever, Temperature, Fatigue, Fever of unknown origin
  
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