Severe sepsis and septic shock: review of the literature and emergency department management guidelines

HB Nguyen, EP Rivers, FM Abrahamian… - Annals of emergency …, 2006 - Elsevier
… , severe sepsis and septic shock are closely related. Septic shock can be viewed as severe
sepsis … Therefore, for the purposes of this review, the term severe sepsis/septic shock will be …

Initial emergency department diagnosis and management of adult patients with severe sepsis and septic shock

SM Perman, M Goyal, DF Gaieski - … of trauma, resuscitation and emergency …, 2012 - Springer
… , severe sepsis and septic shock are medical emergenciesSevere sepsis and septic shock
are disease processes that … of bundled sepsis care in emergency departments internationally …

[PDF][PDF] Sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock: current evidence for emergency department management

J Mayglothling, J Shiber, TL Slesinger - Emergency medicine …, 2011 - aphem.com.mx
… You again identify sepsis and instruct your team that you will be using your department’s
severe sepsis protocol. Equipment for monitoring and procedures is assembled, your staff …

Severe sepsis in the emergency department and its association with a complicated clinical course

SW Smith, A Pheley, R Collier… - … emergency …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Severe sepsis as defined in this study is associated with a more complicated course, but its
predictive value is limited in the ED setting. DM and SS were independently associated with …

National estimates of severe sepsis in United States emergency departments

HE Wang, NI Shapiro, DC Angus… - Critical care medicine, 2007 - journals.lww.com
… The emergency department (ED) often serves as the first site for the recognition … severe
sepsis. However, few evaluations of the national epidemiology and distribution of severe sepsis

[HTML][HTML] Epidemiology of severe sepsis in the emergency department and difficulties in the initial assistance

E Rezende, JMS Junior, AM Isola, EV Campos… - Clinics, 2008 - Elsevier
… Though septic patients admitted to the hospital are first … studies involving severe sepsis/septic
shock patients in the ED, … with severe sepsis admitted to the emergency department (ED) of …

Severe sepsis and septic shock in the emergency department

DA Talan, GJ Moran, FM Abrahamian - Infectious Disease Clinics of North …, 2008 - Elsevier
severe sepsis and septic shock, and to avoid confusion associated with the term “sepsis,” this
article refers to severe sepsis/septic … Bacteremia is not considered synonymous with sepsis

Etiology of illness in patients with severe sepsis admitted to the hospital from the emergency department

AE Jones, AC Heffner, JM Horton… - Clinical Infectious …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
… to administration of antibiotics in the emergency department (83 vs 97 min; P… severe sepsis
in the emergency department had negative culture results. Of patients identified with a sepsis

Effect of an emergency department sepsis protocol on time to antibiotics in severe sepsis

M Francis, T Rich, T Williamson… - … Journal of Emergency …, 2010 - cambridge.org
… Objective: We sought to evaluate the time to antibiotics for emergency department (ED)
patients meeting criteria for severe sepsis before and after the implementation of an ED sepsis

Early detection and treatment of severe sepsis in the emergency department: identifying barriers to implementation of a protocol-based approach

M Burney, J Underwood, S McEvoy, G Nelson… - Journal of Emergency …, 2012 - Elsevier
… with severe sepsis and septic shock in the emergency department, … maximize benefits of a
planned sepsis treatment initiative, a … detection and treatment of severe sepsis was performed. …