Search results for "Sepsis"
October 2017
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/10/
Decision tree can predict resistance to antibiotics commonly used for sepsis
The researchers identified factors predicting which patients with gram-negative sepsis had low probability of resistance to meropenem and which had high probability of resistance to piperacillin-tazobactam, cefepime, and meropenem.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/07/19/2.htm
19 Jul 2017
February 8, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/08/
June 2017
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/06/
Sepsis contributes to at least 1 in 3 inpatient deaths
Sepsis contributes to at least 1 in 3 inpatient deaths, with most deaths occurring in patients whose sepsis presented initially as less severe, a new analysis found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/06/04/3.htm
4 Jun 2014
June 1, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/01/
Lower mortality may be associated with beta-blockers versus other drugs in patients with afib and sepsis
Calcium-channel blockers were used most often as initial treatment for afib in sepsis patients, although mortality was slightly lower in patients who received beta-blockers.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/08/19/2.htm
19 Aug 2015
June 2018
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/06/
Mortality higher in severe sepsis patients whose procalcitonin doesn't go down
The study evaluated the relationship between 28-day mortality and a procalcitonin decrease of more than 80% between baseline and hospital day 4 in ICU patients with severe sepsis or septic shock.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/03/15/2.htm
15 Mar 2017
February 2016
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/02/