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Sepsis News

07/26/10

Sepsis Management Plan | Vanderbilt Emergency Medicine (Adobe PDF)

The goal of this protocol is to improve the efficiency and timeliness of care for patients who present to the ED with sepsis by standardizing and streamlining their care.


07/20/10

Sepsis threatens hospital patients (and others), study finds.

Add sepsis to your list of post-surgery worries. Or, if you're so inclined, to your list of worries in general.


07/20/10

Screening for Sepsis Could Save Lives, Researchers Say

Description: Emergency surgery, co-existing illness, age over 60 linked to deadly blood infection, study found.


07/12/10

Principles of Source Control in the Early Management of Sepsis

Effective and timely source control is critical to the successful management of life-threatening infection. This article reviews the principles of diagnosis and source-control management, and their application to common infections that result in severe sepsis and septic shock.


07/10/10

Sepsis Guidelines 2008_2

The 2008 guideline is an update to the previous guideline.


07/05/10

Bone Marrow Stem Cell Treats Deadly Infection

New research shows bone marrow from a commonly used stem cell may be able to treat sepsis.


07/02/10

Deadly Infections Could Be Treated with Stem Cells

Sepsis is a life-threatening medical condition that is caused by the body's response to infection.Sepsis which is often caused by a burst appendix, severe burns or pneumonia, is the No. 2 killer of patients in intensive care units in Canada and the U. S. The chief cause is multiple organ malfunction and severe lung injury, both tied for first place.


07/01/10

Immunotherapy for Sepsis — A New Approach against an Ancient Foe

The vast majority of patients with sepsis survive the initial insult, only to end up in the intensive care unit with sepsis-induced multiorgan dysfunction days or weeks later.


07/01/10

Stem-Cell Therapy May Provide New Approach To Fight Infection

The study, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, shows that these cells can triple survival rates in an experimental model of sepsis.


05/24/10

Sepsis and Septic Shock

An overview from Mercks' Manual,Second Home Edition.


05/24/10

Doctors Guide

Good resource of updated sepsis material. You can sign up free or; under Unregistered User,select sepsis as the channel.


05/06/10

Merinoff Symposium 2010: Sepsis—An International Call to Action

The Merinoff will be presented by the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (FIMR) and co-hosted by the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM), the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (WFPICCS), the International Sepsis Forum (ISF), and the Sepsis Alliance (SA).


04/25/10

What happens if someone with bad diabetes refuses to amputate a dead foot?

The mortality of severe sepsis is still high, despite improved treatment modalities.


03/10/10

'Lost Boys' star Corey Haim dies at 38
Haim was not feeling well Tuesday night and was running a low-grade fever, he said. The actor went into his mother's bedroom and asked her to lie down by him, Heaslip said. He told his mother he was having trouble breathing, and his mother told him to roll on his side, he said. He began to feel better, but at midnight he woke his mother by walking around the bedroom and then collapsed.


03/06/10

Red Flags of Serious Infection in Children
A review identifies four "red flags" that may help identify serious infection in children presenting in ambulatory care settings, but the authors say that the signs are inadequate by themselves. The analysis was published in the Lancet.

Using 30 studies done in developed countries, analysts identified cyanosis, rapid breathing, poor peripheral perfusion, and petechial rash as strong predictors of infection (all had positive likelihood ratios of 5 or more). Parental concern and clinical instinct also rated high. Common signs such as cough, vomiting, and diarrhea had lower value. In ruling out infection, the authors found the Yale Observation Scale "disappointing."

The authors say their study "highlights the nature and difficulty of the diagnostic task" in children.


02/24/10

Rapid Medical Relief — Project Medishare and the Haitian Earthquake
By 72 hours, we began to see deaths from sepsis. Open wounds that had not been sufficiently treated resulted in wet gangrene. To contain the situation, we used an aggressive strategy, with amputations of irreversibly injured limbs, open surgical débridement of wounds, and the administration of broad-spectrum intravenous antibiotics.


02/23/10

Hospital-Acquired Sepsis, Pneumonia a "Growing Menace"
TUESDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Sepsis and pneumonia caused by hospital-acquired infections killed 48,000 people and led to $8.1 billion in increased health care costs in the United States in 2006, says a new study by a project called Extending the Cure.


02/22/10

Alexander Haig Dies of Infection
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Alexander Haig, a former Army general who became White House chief of staff during the Watergate scandal and secretary of state during the Reagan administration, died Saturday at the age of 85.


02/09/10

Rep. John Murtha dies after surgery complications
It sounds like Rep. Murtha had an inadvertent bowel perforation which led to peritonitis and sepsis. Jim O'Brien, MD


02/05/10

Brittany Murphy's Husband: She Didn't Seem That Sick
I've heard this too often, although sepsis is less common among young people. They can hold on for so long until their body just gives out.


02/03/10

Technology helps combat sepsis at Banner Health.
Congratulations to Banner Health. More hospitals should be instituting sepsis programs.


12/30/09

Effects on management and outcome of severe sepsis....
The application in clinical practice of evidence-based guidelines for the management of patients with severe sepsis/septic shock is still poor ...


12/30/09

The Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC or "the Campaign") developed guidelines for management of severe sepsis and....
The implications of this study may serve as an impetus for similar improvement efforts.


12/22/09

Spotting sepsis.
Whether it's from our growing resistance to antibiotics or an increase in invasive medical procedures, sepsis deaths are on the rise in the US ...


12/03/09

How Do You Test Severe Sepsis Of The Lungs?
Be knowledgeable about pneumonia.


09/18/09

Distinguishing between acute and chronic elements of ill health.
Nurses need to use an eclectic mix of ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ patient data to help the multidisciplinary team draw up a management plan, which ensures that appropriate ceilings of therapy are put in place in line with the degree of ill health.


09/18/09

ABC of Sepsis by Ron Daniels
The importance of early prevention and treatment of sepsis has never been greater.


09/15/09

Tests to Rapidly Diagnose Sepsis Essential.
Diagnostic That Can Quickly Detect Infection Could Speed Treatment and Improve Outcome.


09/13/09

New mums lose limbs after septic shock bacterial infections.
The women, both in their 30s, have had their legs or feet amputated after contracting septic shock from bacteria that experts say are commonly carried without symptoms.


08/25/09

Effectiveness of Treatments for Severe Sepsis: A Prospective Multicenter Observational Study.
In severe sepsis, early administration of broad spectrum antibiotics in all patients and administration of drotrecogin alfa (activated) in the most severe patients reduce mortality.


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