Three recent publications that discuss the recognition and management of sepsis in the NH are reviewed, although there is very little published information about this problem. Despite the lack of information ab
Fluid assessment is made yet more complex in the presence of acute illness and injury.6 For example, sepsis affects the cardiovascular system in multiple ways. Hypovolaemia occurs due to direct fluid loss, including insensible losses due to fever. Sepsis has a direct inhibitory impact on cardiac...
More deprived cancer patients are at higher risk of Emergency Presentation (EP) with most studies pointing to lower symptom awareness and increased comorbidities to explain those patterns. With the example of colon cancer, we examine patterns of hospital emergency admissions (HEAs) history in the mos...
Association of postdischarge rehabilitation with mortality in intensive care unit survivors of sepsis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2014;190(9):1003–11. Article Google Scholar Stelfox HT, Soo A, Niven DJ, Fiest KM, Wunsch H, Rowan KM, et al. Assessment of the safety of discharging ...
Added to the burden of loss of women's lives caused by sepsis are the long term consequences of infertility and the association of maternal sepsis with over one million infection related neonatal deaths every year [3,4]. A specific form of maternal sepsis is known as puerp- eral sepsis, ...
Rauch, P. J.et al. Innate response activator B cells protect against microbial sepsis.Science335, 597–601 (2012). ArticleCASPubMedPubMed CentralGoogle Scholar Kaveri, S. V., Silverman, G. J. & Bayry, J. Natural IgM in immune equilibrium and harnessing their therapeutic potential.J. Immun...
Burnout occurs as a result of a complex interplay between institutional and personal factors. The personal factors that are frequently identified that contribute to physician burnout can be described using the acronym ‘PERSONAL’[1,3,4]:P — Physicians’ sex, and Physicians’ personal factors...
Salmonella typhiis the causative bacterium of typhoid disease, whileMycobacterium tuberculosisis the causative bacterium of tuberculosis. Thus, this is the key difference between typhoid and tuberculosis. Furthermore, the complications of typhoid may include intestinal bleeding and holes, sepsis, myocarditis...
What are the downsides of the plan? Of course the potential £130 billion price tag for this will have to be recouped somehow, after all that is not far below the annual NHS budget. Reports differ, but the bill will have to be picked up by either the taxpayer or the bill payers. ...
all suspected side effects of COVID-19 vaccines are reported using a Coronavirus Yellow Card site [5]. In Europe, the European suspected adverse drug reactions database, EudraVigilance, records all reports of possible adverse events, or safety signals, associated with COVID-19 vaccines [6]. ...