Search Tag: Albumin

Sepsis

Reversing-sepsis-induced-hypotension

2022 25 Aug

Sepsis is characterised by hypovolaemia and vasodilation. It is also characterised by organ dysfunction secondary to a dysregulated immune response of the host to the microbial pathogen. Prompt identification, early treatment with appropriate antibiotics, and fluid resuscitation can improve patient outcomes. Patients with cirrhosis and sepsis are a...Read more

ICU Management

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2017 16 Mar

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ICU Management

Albumin-administration-in-sepsis-the-case-for-and-against

2017 16 Mar

Serum albumin is an essential plasma protein, with a variety of homeostatic and predictive roles in health and disease (Figure 1) . Hypoalbuminaemia is common in critical illness. Human albumin solution has been administered clinically for more than five decades, but its use has been subject to marked controversy for the last twenty years (Fanali...Read more