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Surviving Sepsis: The 2021 Review

Surviving Sepsis: The 2021 Review

by Doran Drew, Amanda Mattice | Jun 23, 2022 | Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Infectious Disease, Resuscitation

A review of some of the most relevant elements of the 2021 surviving sepsis campaign for the emergency physician. Definitions Our operative definition of sepsis & septic shock are the sepsis-3 definitions [1]. Sepsis: “Sepsis is a life threatening organ...
Sepsis and Septic Shock

Sepsis and Septic Shock

by Garrick Mok, Pascale King | May 7, 2020 | Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Infectious Disease, Resuscitation

The Surviving Sepsis Guidelines define sepsis as a “life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to an infection”. Septic shock is further defined as sepsis with hypotension (MAP ≤65) and/or lactate ≥2.0 despite adequate fluid...
Emerging Updates in Septic Shock

Emerging Updates in Septic Shock

by Shannon Fernando, Kate O'Connell | Jan 30, 2020 | Critical Care, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation

In September 2018, Dr. Bram Rochwerg and I wrote a blog post on the treatment of patients with sepsis and septic shock. Much of this was based on the 2016 Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSc) Clinical Practice Guidelines [1]. However, in a little over a year, significant...
Hydrocortisone plus Fludrocortisone for Adults with Septic Shock

Hydrocortisone plus Fludrocortisone for Adults with Septic Shock

by Hans Rosenberg | Apr 15, 2019 | Critical Care, Full Article, Infectious Disease, Journal Club

Journal Club Summary Methodology: 3/5 Usefulness: 3.5/5 Annane D, et al. N Engl J Med. 2018 Mar 1;378(9):809-818.  Editorial: A Role for Hydrocortisone Therapy in Septic Shock? Question and Methods: Large multi-center, double-blinded, randomized-controlled trial...
All in one: Sepsis in the Emergency Department

All in one: Sepsis in the Emergency Department

by Shannon Fernando, Bram Rochwerg | Sep 13, 2018 | Critical Care, Featured

Comprehensively discussing sepsis in the Emergency Department (ED) in a three-page blog is quite frankly, impossible. You would be hard-pressed to find a disease process that has undergone such dramatic change over the past two decades. Through it all, we still do not...
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