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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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2023 Critical Care Year in Review (Part 1)

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Sepsis, infectious disease Managing septic shock with a restrictive-fluids approach (preferentially using vasopressors after a single liter crystalloid bolus) led to similar outcomes as the usual practice of bolusing large volumes of fluids first. Either approach in severe sepsis with shock seems reasonable.

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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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Travel-Related Illnesses in Children

Pediatric EM Morsels

However, the destination of travel is also important as helminths have distinct geographical distribution.

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

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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. A score of 2 or higher on the Phoenix-4 in a child with suspected or confirmed infection would diagnose sepsis.

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Post #3 Back-to-Sleep series

Sensible Medicine

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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