The use of a sepsis screening tool in the emergency environment may be prudent, however there is currently insufficient evidence to recommend a single screening tool for this context. A combination of the qSOFA and SIRS may be employed to avoid 'practice paralysis' in the interim. The authors...
STOPP/START Criteria, Geriatric Depression Screening) are often labelled as geriatric screening, recommendations for CGA and holistic older person care in emergency settings encompass both geriatric specific and generalised screening tools (e.g. Sepsis, MUST Nutritional Screening...
Conclusions: Systolic blood pressure ≤ 100 mmHg, temperature > 38.5 °C, GCS < 15, lactate > 4 mmol/L, gastrointestinal symptoms, and a history of acute altered mental status demonstrated the strongest association with sepsis. We present three screening tools to predict...
Modified early warning scoring (MEWS): evaluating the evidence for tool inclusion of sepsis screening criteria and impact on mortality and failure to rescue Aims and objectivesTo evaluate current research evidence reporting outcomes from modified early warning scoring system tools utilisation to prevent fa...
Purpose: The purpose of this comprehensive literature review was to evaluate current published evidence reporting decreased failure to rescue effects from modified early warning scoring (MEWS) system tools in hospitalized adult medical-surgical/telemetry patients from all-cause diagnoses including...
Comparison of nutritional risk screening tools for predicting clinical outcomes in hospitalized patients. Nutrition. 2010;26:721–6. Article Google Scholar Download references Acknowledgements We thank all the team involved in the development and implementation of the study: Jin Wang, Caihua Zhang, ...
The impact of sepsis, delirium, and psychological distress on self-rated cognitive function in ICU survivors-a prospective cohort study. J Intensive Care. 2018;6:2. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Friedrich O, et al. The sick and the weak: neuropathies/myopathies in the ...
7 Preterm birth is associated with serious complications, including major intraventricular hemorrhage, acute respiratory illnesses, and sepsis.7-10 Approximately two-thirds of all infant deaths in the US occur among infants born preterm.8 The frequency and severity of adverse outcomes from preterm ...
Evidence for Use of Validated Sepsis Screening Tools in the Prehospital Population: A Scoping Review IntroductionEarly detection and treatment of sepsis improves chances of survival; however, sepsis is often difficult to diagnose initially. This is especia... RD Oanesa,WH Su,A Weissman - 《Prehosp...
Predicting late-onset sepsis by routine neonatal screening for colonisation by gram-negative bacteria in neonates at intensive care units: a protocol for a systematic review. BMJ Open 2017;7:e014986.Harder T, Seidel J, Eckmanns T, Weiss B, Haller S. Predicting late-onset sepsis by routine ...