Persistent Organ Failure Before Death in Patients with Severe Sepsis

• 15/08/2013

Intensivists are used to describing the patient’s condition at the time of handover or when speaking to family members as stable, suggesting that nothing new has happened during the last period of clinical treatment or evaluation, usually one day. Families generally receive this information as positive news, thinking that as there has been no further deterioration, that this will give space for future...