作者
Jesús Blanco, Arturo Muriel-Bombín, Víctor Sagredo, Francisco Taboada, Francisco Gandía, Luís Tamayo, Javier Collado, Ángel García-Labattut, Demetrio Carriedo, Manuel Valledor, Martín De Frutos, María-Jesús López, Ana Caballero, José Guerra, Braulio Álvarez, Agustín Mayo, Jesús Villar, Grupo de Estudios y Análisis en Cuidados Intensivos (GRECIA) jesus. villar54@ gmail. com
发表日期
2008/12
期刊
Critical care
卷号
12
页码范围
1-14
出版商
BioMed Central
简介
Introduction
Sepsis is a leading cause of admission to non-cardiological intensive care units (ICUs) and the second leading cause of death among ICU patients. We present the first extensive dataset on the epidemiology of severe sepsis treated in ICUs in Spain.
Methods
We conducted a prospective, observational, multicentre cohort study, carried out over two 3-month periods in 2002. Our aims were to determine the incidence of severe sepsis among adults in ICUs in a specific area in Spain, to determine the early (48 h) ICU and hospital mortality rates, as well as factors associated with the risk of death.
Results
A total of 4,317 patients were admitted and 2,619 patients were eligible for the study; 311 (11.9%) of these presented at least 1 episode of severe sepsis, and 324 (12.4%) episodes of severe sepsis were recorded …
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