Sepsis Archives - Prehospital Research Support Site

in Sepsis

05/10/14

Prehospital intravenous access and fluid resuscitation in severe sepsis: an observational cohort study

More evidence to support the early implementation of sepsis care in the prehospital setting – give fluids early!

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in Sepsis

29/04/14

Improving the management and care of people with sepsis

David Fitzpatrick and colleagues investigate medical and nursing staff perceptions and experiences of the introduction of a pre-hospital sepsis screening tool (PSST) to expedite sepsis identification and care delivery

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in Guidelines, Sepsis

18/04/14

Current concept of abdominal sepsis: WSES position paper

World Society of Emergency Surgery position paper on abdmonial sepsis, providing an overview of current best-practice management.

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in Featured Article, Sepsis

23/03/14

ProCESS Trial: Protocol-Based Care for Early Septic Shock

In a multicenter randomised trial conducted in the tertiary care setting, protocol-based resuscitation of patients in whom septic shock was diagnosed in the emergency department did not improve outcomes.

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in Sepsis

24/02/14

Sepsis: a need for prehospital intervention?

Abstract Prehospital staff have made a significant contribution in recent years to improving care for patients with acute coronary syndrome, multiple trauma and stroke. There is, however, another group of patients that is not currently being targeted, with a similar time-critical condition. This group of patients is those with severe sepsis and septic shock and […]

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in Featured Article, Sepsis

21/02/14

Severe sepsis in pre-hospital emergency care: analysis of incidence, care, and outcome

Full text (free) – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3622444/ Abstract Rationale Severe sepsis is common and highly morbid, yet the epidemiology of severe sepsis at the frontier of the health care system-pre-hospital emergency care-is unknown. Objectives We examined the epidemiology of pre-hospital severe sepsis among emergency medical services (EMS) encounters, relative to acute myocardial infarction and stroke. Methods Retrospective study […]

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in Guidelines, Sepsis

30/01/14

Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines 2012

Download from http://www.sccm.org/Documents/SSC-Guidelines.pdf Visit http://www.survivingsepsis.org for more info References 1. Dellinger RP, Levy MM, Rhodes A, Annane D, Gerlach H, Opal SM, Sevransky JE, Sprung CL, Douglas IS, Jaeschke R, Osborn TM, Nunnally ME, Townsend SR, Reinhart K, Kleinpell RM, Angus DC, Deutschman CS, Machado FR, Rubenfeld GD, Webb SA, Beale RJ, Vincent JL, Moreno R; […]

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