2023 Operations Sepsis 
Don't Forget the Bubbles
MAY 17, 2023
This month’s list features answers to intriguing questions such as: ‘ Is the neonatal sepsis calculator useful if women were not screened for GBS? ’, ‘ Who can best score postoperative pain: parents or the children? ’, ‘ Is functional constipation associated with hypohydration? 2023 Apr 17. 2023 Apr 25;329(16):1386-1398.
PulmCCM
JANUARY 6, 2025
In the past decade, so-called “sepsis alerts” came out of nowhere to become a ubiquitous and resource-intensive component of inpatient medical care. “Sepsis alerts” are automated notifications that flag patients who meet certain criteria compatible with severe infection discernible from the electronic medical record.
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EMDocs
JANUARY 11, 2025
Clinical exam: 2, 3, 9 Abdominal distension and tenderness Nausea and vomiting Stool present in the rectal vault Peritonitis may be accompanied by hemodynamic instability in the case of sepsis. 2-4, 6 If there is a concern for perforation or sepsis, surgical consultation, blood cultures, empiric antibiotics, and fluids are recommended.
Don't Forget the Bubbles
JANUARY 1, 2024
Data from the Nurse-Family Partnership program involving 60,171 families were analysed across four cohorts, including pre-pandemic and three pandemic cohorts (from July 2022 to October 2023). However, children who had an operation experienced improvements in behaviour, symptoms, and quality of life and had lower blood pressure.
EMDocs
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
1 , 4 If presenting later in course or with an intra-abdominal perforation, patients are more likely to show signs of sepsis and hemodynamic instability. 1 , 4 If presenting later in course or with an intra-abdominal perforation, patients are more likely to show signs of sepsis and hemodynamic instability. Accessed September 30, 2023.
ACEP Now
MARCH 6, 2024
The Sisyphean task remains to try to keep up—and, in that vein—here is a light round of the emergency medicine literature from 2023. 7 The operators involved in the trial were mostly emergency medicine residents or critical care fellows, but this fact does not diminish the generalizability of these observations. All bleeding stops.
ALiEM
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Patients are at high risk of bacterial spread to the abdomen or retrograde spread up the ventriculoperitoneal shunt leading to peritonitis, peritoneal abscess, ventriculitis, meningitis, or sepsis. General surgery and neurosurgery should be consulted emergently for further operative interventions. Surg Neurol Int.
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