Sepsis is a significant public health concern, particularly affecting individuals above 70 years in developed countries. This is a crucial fact due to the increasing aging population, their heightened vulnerability to sepsis, and the associated high mortality rates. However, the morbidity and long-term...
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The SSCG present various recommendations on diagnostic methods, management, and therapy associated with severe sepsis and septic shock, on the basis of the results of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) conducted in Europe and the United States. Previous reports have pointed out problems in the acce...
many large-scale epidemiologic studies revealed that these criteria represented sepsis severity [16],[17]. There was no major change in the definition during the review in 2003, and the definition of organ dysfunction, which had remained vague, was decided to be applicable to the MODS score...
A single patient might have contributed to more than one surveillance episode, if he or she were admitted more than once to the ICU during his or her hospitalization period. The onset of sepsis, severe sepsis or septic shock was defined as the time at which screening and confirmatory criteria...
are essential. In hospital settings interventions such as a protein-rich diet, nutritional supplements, sedation protocols with short-acting drugs and early mobilization can improve outcomes. Routine screenings for prompt identification of potential malnutrition risks in geriatrics patients are recommended [...
Studies on the potential use of qSOFA as a screening tool for sepsis show contradictory results [56,57,58]. Sepsis-3 with qSOFA have been criticized [59,60], particularly because the use of qSOFA score risks missing early identification of sepsis when treatment is the most effective. Based...