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Information collected included signalment, vitals, triage diagnostics, treatment timing (antibiotic administration, surgical intervention), diagnosis method, etiology, and survival.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      22 of 60 dogs had elevated temperatures at presentation, 37 of 60 had a normal temperature, and 1 of 60 was hypothermic. The median Acute Patient Physiologic and Laboratory Evaluation (APPLE\n                      <jats:sub>fast<\/jats:sub>\n                      ) score for all dogs was 23. There was no difference in APPLE\n                      <jats:sub>fast<\/jats:sub>\n                      score for dogs with or without elevated temperatures at presentation. The median time to injectable antibiotic therapy and surgical intervention for all dogs following presentation was 4 hours, with no difference between dogs with or without elevated temperatures. There was no significant correlation between temperature or APPLE\n                      <jats:sub>fast<\/jats:sub>\n                      score and time to injectable antibiotic therapy or time to surgery. Forty-nine of 60 dogs (82%) survived to discharge (18 of 22 [82%] with elevated temperature, 31 of 38 [82%] without elevated temperature). The absence of an elevated temperature, time to injectable antibiotic therapy, time to surgery, and APPLE\n                      <jats:sub>fast<\/jats:sub>\n                      score were not significantly associated with survival.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Absence of an elevated temperature was not associated with mortality in dogs with septic peritonitis.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Clinical Relevance<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this study population, septic peritonitis carried an overall fair prognosis in dogs, but temperature at admission was not associated with mortality.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.2460\/javma.25.05.0352","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,9,22]],"date-time":"2025-09-22T12:16:52Z","timestamp":1758543412000},"page":"1-7","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Absence of an elevated temperature at admission is not associated with mortality in dogs with septic peritonitis"],"prefix":"10.2460","volume":"264","author":[{"given":"Jasper","family":"Burke","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Red Bank Veterinary Hospital, Tinton Falls, NJ"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nolan","family":"Chalifoux","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"BluePearl Pet Hospital, Levittown, PA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1272","reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"ref1","series-title":"J Vet Emerg Crit Care (San Antonio).","first-page":"152","article-title":"Impact of appropriate empirical antimicrobial therapy on outcome of dogs with septic peritonitis","volume":"25","author":"Dickinson AE","year":"2015","unstructured":"Dickinson AE, Summers JF, Wignal J, Boag AK, Keir I. 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