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Congestive Heart Failure and Sepsis: A Closer Look at Fluid Management

RebelEM

For those with sepsis, the administration of intravenous fluids (IVF) at the volumes recommended in the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) requires careful consideration of an individual’s chronic medical conditions and subsequent sensitivity to IVF. Studies without a clear timeframe for fluid administration.

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Sepsis Screening Decreases Mortality. Well, not really.

Sensible Medicine

This comment might be one of the reasons I’ve been skeptical of sepsis screening. Sepsis screening, for me, comes in many different flavors -- from EMR alerts based on lab and vital sign data to anyone being able to draw a lactate or call an RRT. .” So said my program director during my internship. to 0.3%).

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Putting Clinical Gestalt to Work in the Emergency Department

ACEP Now

Our nurse did not study Paul Ekman’s Facial Action Coding System for Action Units to code “fear” in the patient’s face. In such cases, would you wait for a lactate, white blood cell count, bandemia, or other diagnostics to confirm a source of infection before starting antibiotics, fluid resuscitation, and/or pressors?

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Episode 21- Updates and Controversies in the Early Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock

EB Medicine

This month, we’ll be talking Updates and Controversies in the Early Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock. We have a special episode for you this month… We’ve brought Dr. Jeremy Rose, one of the peer reviewers, and a sepsis expert, on with us to talk through the content this month. Jeff : Sepsis chair. Sepsis-3!!

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Diffuse Subendocardial Ischemia on the ECG. Left main? 3-vessel disease? No!

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Clinical Course The paramedic activated a “Code STEMI” alert and transported the patient nearly 50 miles to the closest tertiary medical center. In addition, the patient received 750 mL of fluid resuscitation with transient improvement of blood pressure. For instance: sepsis, bleeding, dehydration, hypoxia, and mild ACS.

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Necrotising Enterocolitis

Don't Forget the Bubbles

The history of necrotising enterocolitis The earliest documented cases resembling Necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) date back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Systemic Infections : Sepsis and other systemic infections can predispose infants to NEC by compromising the gut barrier and promoting inflammation.

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Paediatric IV Fluid Prescribing

Mind The Bleep

There could be any number of reasons for this but some examples are: they have severe D&V and aren’t keeping fluids down, or because they are pre or post-op, or have presented very unwell and need fluid resuscitation. saline + 5% dextrose or plasma-lyte 148 + 5% dextrose.