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

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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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Sniffing out Sepsis - Vibes vs Scoring Systems?

Taming the SRU

Early Physician Gestalt Versus Usual Screening Tools for the Prediction of Sepsis in Critically Ill Emergency Patients. Ann Emerg Med 2024 Background Sepsis remains an increasingly common emergency department condition that is tied to higher morbidity and mortality across the United States as well as the rest of the world.

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2024 Emergency Medicine Research Highlights: Forced Air, Sepsis, and More

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Sepsis Robots or Sepsis Humans The proliferation of sepsis alerts in the ED has reached levels best described as obscene. The common refrain from trained clinicians: We are smarter than any computer or simple scoring system, and we can rapidly and accurately identify sepsis by ourselves, thank you very much. Pediatrics.

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

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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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The Latest Research in Neurologic Emergencies

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You may have mastered all the latest changes affecting management of sepsis, STEMI, and opiate-use disorder, but there’s no stopping the relentless revisions to our approach to neurologic emergencies. This comes out of INTERACT-4, a trial testing the efficacy of blood pressure reduction in undifferentiated acute stroke syndromes.

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Fourteen Emergency Medicine Research Gems from 2023

ACEP Now

Every year, the volume of published research continues to outpace capacity to consume. What’s New in Stroke Care? The simplicity of tenecteplase administration makes its use likely the preferred agent for treating acute ischemic stroke. the “ARAMIS” trial throws up another red flag for patients suffering mild stroke.

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A Response to the NEJM's Sepsis Review Article

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An excellent review article titled “Sepsis and Septic Shock” was published 4 December 2024 in the New England Journal of Medicine. health system require us to enter a diagnosis to generate payment by a health insurer, it’s worth emphasizing that sepsis is a syndrome, not a disease.

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