Friday 25 August 2017

Using Fever Chart



There are regular monitoring of patients in ICU for fever and also sometimes patients are advised to make a fever chart so that clinician can better understand the disease and condition of patient.

Here is a temperature chart made with excel to plot it automatically and accurately.

1) click link to get access temperature chart

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nkemyO_WaB0TMWbpKfhUVcnbfZco8l-MZ0XwJFSZIZc/edit#gid=0


2) For each new patient go on top left in chart, click on File, then click on make a copy.
A new copy of fever chart will open, rename it as anything you want.  (not recommended to rename based on patient identifier as that not HIPAA compliant).

3) now in Time column enter date time as (mm/dd/yyyy) 1/22/2017 14:00:00 and in temperature column enter temperature as degree F

4) Chart will be made automatically. only enter 4 hourly values if need 4 hourly chart.



Fig 1- Hourly chart


Fig2- 4 hourly chart