PulmCCM
SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
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.
PulmCCM
DECEMBER 11, 2023
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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PulmCCM
APRIL 10, 2025
SEPSIS Aspirin For Sepsis (ASP-SEPSIS trial) Could a simple aspirin help cure sepsis? Among 166 patients with “sepsis” who were randomized to aspirin 200 mg or placebo at five ICUs in Brazil, those receiving aspirin had no improvement in organ failure scores or other outcomes. Of course not.
PulmCCM
OCTOBER 30, 2023
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).
RebelEM
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
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.
Pediatric EM Morsels
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
However, the destination of travel is also important as helminths have distinct geographical distribution.
PulmCCM
MARCH 4, 2024
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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