Search Tag: Sepsis
Atrial Fibrillation and Sepsis: A Life-Threatening Combination
2020 08 Oct
Almost half of the patients with sepsis suffer from myocardial depression and a reduced ejection fraction. Sepsis can also cause changes in circulating volume, vascular tone, and coronary blood flow, all of which affect heart function and heart rate. Serum catecholamine levels and direct measurements of renal sympathetic nerve activity have shown that... Read more
ESEM 2020 - Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine Conference
2020 10 Dec
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Early Identification of Sepsis- Web Symposium
2020 17 Nov
Speakers Prof. Dr Steven Opal Alpert Medical School of Brown University, USA Dr Bruno Francois Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Limoges, France Dr Angelo Giacomucci Unita di Terapia Intensiva, Azienda Ospedaliera di Perugia, Italy Dr Phillipe Eggimann Centre Hopsitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Switzerland Find Abionic on Social... Read more
COVID-19: Still Poorly Understood
2020 02 Oct
During the first few months of the coronavirus disease, it was being suggested that severe COVID-19 may represent a hyperimmune disorder, similar to secondary haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (sHLH) and macrophage activation syndrome (MAS). Cytokine storm, elevated plasma levels, ferritin and inflammatory biomarkers are all typical signs of sHLH/MAS.... Read more
Promising Techniques in Sepsis After Cardiac Surgery
2020 14 Sep
The purpose of this article is to give an up-to-date, comprehensive review on the utilisation of extracorporeal blood purification techniques and immunostimulation in septic patients after cardiac surgery. Introduction Sepsis is a potentially life-threatening state caused by an infection and an inadequate, dysregulated host immune... Read more
Advances in Sepsis Research – New Tools Against One of the Oldest Diseases?
2020 14 Sep
Sepsis and septic shock are the leading causes of death in the ICU. With an estimated mortality rate of 40-60%, septic shock is in the focus of adult critical care medicine. It is broadly accepted that intervention in the very early phase of sepsis before the complex inflammatory host response is initiated should be one major area that clinical research... Read more
Improved Patient Assessment with MR-proADM
2020 29 Aug
Prof. Carlo Tascini is Head of Infectious Diseases Clinic at Udine University Hospital. Prior to that, he was the Head of First Division of Infectious Diseases Unit at Cotugno Hospital. His field of interests include endocarditis, meningitis, sepsis, MDR bacterial infection and fungal infections. HealthManagement.org spoke to Prof. Tascini about... Read more
Reappraisal of Biomarkers in Sepsis Management
2020 13 Jun
Sepsis biomarkers have an important role in the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of sepsis management. If timely and accurate information about biomarkers becomes available, the physician can not only make better therapeutic choices but also monitor the efficacy of the intervention in progress and adjust it accordingly. In a previous review... Read more
High-Risk Sepsis Survivors and End-of-Life Care
2020 03 Mar
Sepsis is a common condition encountered in hospitals and is associated with high morbidity and mortality. However, with advances in treatment, aggressive management and early institution of antibiotics, the number of sepsis survivors has increased. Each year in the US alone, over a million patients are discharged after being treated for sepsis.... Read more
Early Prediction of Sepsis From Clinical Data
2020 18 Feb
Sepsis continues to be a leading cause of death in hospitalised patients. Approximately 1.7 million individuals develop sepsis each year in the US and of these, around 270,000 die from the infection. Sepsis affects nearly 30 million patients worldwide and nearly 6 million die from sepsis each year. Billions of dollars are required to manage sepsis,... Read more