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An Herbal Hope: Is XBJ A Game-Changer in Sepsis Management?

RebelEM

Background: Could Xuebijing (XBJ) catalyze a paradigm shift in sepsis management? XBJ is an herbal compound used in China to manage various inflammatory and infectious processes in recent years, including sepsis. This post evaluates the recent “Efficacy of Xuebijing Injection in Patients With Sepsis (EXIT-SEP)” trial.

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Is procalcitonin "safe" to guide antibiotic use in patients with sepsis?

PulmCCM

A large proportion have concluded PCT is a safe and effective method to shorten antibiotic courses, including in patients with sepsis. The ADAPT-Sepsis Trial Between 2018 and 2024 at 41 centers in the U.K., Because ADAPT-Sepsis was designed as a noninferiority trial, and the authors chose (arbitrarily) a 5.4%

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Adjunctive Methylene Blue in Septic Shock?

RebelEM

Background: Sepsis can induce numerous physiologic derangements. Most of the research on the use of MB has been in patients with vasoplegia following cardiopulmonary bypass. At the most severe end, this includes endothelial dysfunction leading to increased vascular permeability, abnormal nitric oxide metabolism, and vasodilation (i.e.

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New EAST Practice Guideline: Spleen Vaccines After Angioembolization

The Trauma Pro

They tried to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies that compared outcomes in splenectomy vs. angioembolization patients. Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of research material out there. Not very precise, I know. But what would EAST say? Whether this is actually true is open to debate.

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Episode 7: Sepsis

PHEM Cast

[link] We hope you enjoyed our sepsis podcast. St Emlyns Induction podcast on Sepsis. A great summary of what to do when a patient with suspected sepsis first arrives in the ED. A great summary of what to do when a patient with suspected sepsis first arrives in the ED. March 2016.

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Sepsis alerts work! Just not in the patients who fire the alerts

PulmCCM

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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Diastolic Shock Index: A clinically relevant predictor of poor outcome in septic shock?

Taming the SRU

Diastolic shock index and clinical outcomes in patients with septic shock. The pathologic vasodilation observed in sepsis is thought to result from failure of the vascular smooth muscle to constrict appropriately, leading to hypotension as well as tissue hypoperfusion (2). Ospina-Tascón GA, Teboul J-L, Hernandez G, et al.

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