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!
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
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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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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