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CDC gives a nudge to hospitals on sepsis care

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention formally called on hospitals to develop robust sepsis care programs to systematically identify and treat sepsis, track outcomes, and improve care delivery. ” What is that, a sepsis Stasi? Unlike strokes and STEMIs, sepsis has no gold standard for diagnosis.

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Travel-Related Illnesses in Children

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In one ED study, ALL cases of missed travel-related illness did not have a documented travel history in their ED note , whereas 90% of the identified travel-related illnesses had a provider documented travel history (Greenky 2022) Those who are visiting friends and relatives (VFR) are typically at highest risk.

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Post #3 Back-to-Sleep series

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This sort of sepsis would produce many of the common autopsy findings. The CDC reports that in the US in 2020 there were 93 Sudden Unexpected Infant Deaths per 100,000 live births (Fig. million babies born in 2020, and the CDC reports there were about 1,389 SIDS deaths. Figure 2 From the CDC Website.

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The Latest in Critical Care, 3/4/24 (Issue #32)

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About half of participants had had documented prior Covid infection. New criteria for diagnosis of pediatric sepsis The diagnosis of pediatric sepsis will abandon the so-called SIRS criteria in favor of a simple organ-failure score. standard deviation). The model was validated using electronic medical record data including 3.6

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The Latest in Critical Care, 10/30/23 (Issue #18)

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Professional Medical Societies Call for Elimination of SEP-1 The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), along with societies for emergency medicine physicians and hospitalists, are again speaking up about the ongoing policy experiment known as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock Management Bundle (SEP-1).

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Is Pip-Tazo Harming Sepsis Patients?

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Background: Patients with sepsis are routinely treated with empiric broad-spectrum antibiotics while awaiting source identification, as recommended by the surviving sepsis campaign.2 Mortality of Patients With Sepsis Administered Piperacillin-Tazobactam vs Cefepime. address in the article discussed below. JAMA Intern Med.

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Mpox in adult patients: updates on diagnosis and clinical management in the ED

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2 Beginning in January 2023, the DRC documented a record number of annual suspected cases of clade 1 mpox, specifically classified as Clade 1b. By 2024, over 17,000 suspected cases (2,863 confirmed) were documented across Africa, with the majority in the DRC. Adapted from CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.).

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