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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...
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...
SIRS? No SIRS? Understanding Sepsis in the Emergency Department after Sepsis-3.

SIRS? No SIRS? Understanding Sepsis in the Emergency Department after Sepsis-3.

by emottawa | Mar 2, 2017 | Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation

Use of the term “sepsis” continues to be controversial. We understand that patients with infection can manifest an immune-mediated systemic response, and are at risk of deterioration, organ dysfunction, and death. At what point in that cascade the patient is termed...

Systemic inflammatory response syndrome criteria in defining severe sepsis

by emottawa | Nov 3, 2015 | Journal Club

Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 4/5                  Usefulness Score: 3.5/5   Kaukonen KM, Bailey M, Pilcher D, et al. N Engl J Med. 2015 Apr 23;372(17):1629-38. Full Article   This retrospective multicenter study found that the use of SIRS criteria to define...
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