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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2026 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Care Med. 2023 Oct 12;51(11):1570–1586. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000006022

TABLE 1.

Noninfectious Causes of New Fever in ICU Patients

Acalculous Cholecystitis
Acute myocardial infarction
Adrenal insufficiency
Atelectasis
Blood product transfusion
Cytokine release syndrome
Dressler syndrome (pericardial injury syndrome)
Drug fever
Fat emboli
Fibroproliferative phase of acute respiratory distress syndrome
Gout
Heterotopic ossification
Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome
Intracranial bleed
Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction
Malignant hyperthermia
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
Nonconvulsive status epilepticus
Pancreatitis
Pulmonary infarction
Pneumonitis without infection
Serotonin syndrome
Stroke
Thyroid storm
Transplant rejection
Tumor lysis syndrome
Venous thrombosis
Withdrawal from certain substances including alcohol, opiates, barbiturates, benzodiazepines