Sepsis
Reports from Washington Hospital Center Describe Recent Advances in Sepsis
Published in Blood Weekly, January 19th, 2012
2012 JAN 19 -- New investigation results, "Sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock: current evidence for emergency department management," are detailed in a study published in Emergency Medicine Practice. "In the middle of a busy shift, a patient arrives by ambulance from a local long-term care facility with a report of altered mental status. You enter the room to find a chronically ill-appearing 85-year-old man with fever, tachycardia, and hypotension, and it is instantly apparent that this patient is septic," researchers in Washington, District of Columbia report.
"What is not clear is what the source is, what modifications in treatment might be...
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Source: Blood Weekly (2012-01-19)
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