Search results for "Sepsis"
Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines updated
Changes to the guidelines include a shift away from early goal-directed therapy in favor of hemodynamic assessment to guide fluid administration after the initial fluid bolus.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/01/25/1.htm
25 Jan 2017
February 2009
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/02/
Faster antibiotics, full sepsis bundle associated with lower inpatient mortality
Overall, 82.5% of patients in the New York State registry got the recommended bundle, which included blood cultures, broad-spectrum antibiotics, and lactate measurement, within three hours.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/05/24/2.htm
24 May 2017
June 21, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/21/
June 28, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/28/
Prognostic value of sepsis criteria compared in ED and ICU
The qSOFA score was a better predictor than SIRS in the emergency department, while SOFA was more predictive than SIRS or qSOFA in the intensive care unit.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/01/25/2.htm
25 Jan 2017
October 5, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/10/05/
Using a threshold of 2 SIRS criteria to define severe sepsis may not be adequate, study finds
Requiring 2 or more systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) criteria to define severe sepsis may result in exclusion of seriously ill patients, according to a new study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/03/25/2.htm
25 Mar 2015
February 16, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/02/16/
Fever treatment does not improve 28-day mortality in critically ill adults with sepsis, review finds
One hypothesis for the decrease in early (and not later) mortality is that controlling fever blunts the immunologic benefit of hyperthermia, leading to increased nosocomial infections later in the hospital course, the study authors speculated.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/03/01/2.htm
1 Mar 2017