An overview of necrotizing soft tissue infection: a must not miss but challenging to diagnosis emergency.
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Tagged ‘Sepsis’
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Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection
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Accuracy of the Age-Adjusted Quick SOFA Score in Children
The sepsis 3 guidelines recommended the use of the Sepsis Related Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score for early identification of sepsis in adults (Singer 2016, PMID: 26903338). An abbreviated version of SOFA (Quick SOFA or qSOFA) includes variables available at the bedside in the ED (systolic BP,
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Petition to Retire the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines
This post is a multi-physician, multi-specialty petition detailing significant concerns with the surviving sepsis campaign guidelines.
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Utility of quick sepsis-related organ failure assessment (qSOFA) to predict outcome in patients with pneumonia
Pneumonia, an acute infection of the pulmonary parenchyma, is a disease that commonly presents to US Emergency Departments, with an incidence as high as 9.7 per 1000 persons in developed countries.
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The Vitamin C, Thiamine and Hydrocortisone Cocktail in Sepsis
While early recognition and treatment of sepsis has improved outcomes, mortality rates continue to be high. In low income countries, septic patients suffer mortality rates as high as 60%. Sepsis has been associated with vitamin c deficiency,
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Surviving Sepsis 2017 Guidelines Overview
This post review the updates in the new surviving sepsis 2017 guidelines.
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Validation of qSOFA for Mortality Prediction in the ED
In 2016 the Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3), redefined sepsis as life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. This group postulated that sepsis can be identified through an increase in Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score of at least 2 points.
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