Prevention, early recognition, and treatment are critical, as sepsis can significantly damage various organ systems7. Following a diagnosis, one-third of children may experience a new disability or fail to fully recover their previous health-related quality of life after one to three months8,9,10...
There's lots of information out there, and it's easy to be confused about how exactly sepsis arises. Below, Agim Beshiri, M.D., Abbott senior medical director, shares the facts about sepsis and what you can do if you think you have it. What is Sepsis? Sepsis occurs when the body'...
Basic research suggests some contributing mechanisms underlying asthma might at the same time benefit patients with asthma against sepsis, while the potential protective effect of comorbid asthma on prognosis of sepsis has not been well studied in clinic
encapsulated bacteria, biofilm fragments and L-form (free-floating and inside leukocytes). Bacteria can enter the bloodstream as a complication of infections (pneumonia, meningitis, peritonitis, urinary tract infections, etc.), during surgery, due to catheters, vascular prostheses, prosthetic...
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Rhee reported receiving grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the conduct of the study and grants from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and personal fees from UpToDate outside the submitted work. Dr Fram repor...
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least two sets of blood cultures increased significantly in both groups. During phase 2, intervention hospitals showed higher proportion of adequate initial antimicrobial therapy and de-escalation within 5 days. A survey among involved clinicians indicated lacking resources for quality improvement. Therefore...
Sepsis is a life-threatening systemic inflammatory condition caused by the body’s response to infection, leading to fever, increased heart and breathing rates and septic shock is the subset of these patients with hypotension and altered serum lactate1,2,3. The estimated annual cost of sepsis hos...
Microbiota restoration and protection, reduction of oxidative stress, protection and acceleration of bone barrow restoration, and recovery of plasmatic albumin structure and function by AC application are the facts, encouraging the application of AC for sepsis prevention [19,29,83,87,89,150,151,152...