Defining and Diagnosing Sepsis

Sepsis is a heterogeneous clinical syndrome that encompasses infections of many different types and severity. Not surprisingly, it has confounded most attempts to apply a single definition, which has also limited the ability to develop a set of reliable diagnostic criteria. It is perhaps best define...

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Published inEmergency medicine clinics of North America Vol. 35; no. 1; p. 1
Main Author Scott, Michael C
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.02.2017
Subjects
Humans
Organ Dysfunction Scores
Patient Care Bundles - standards
Sepsis - diagnosis
Sepsis - pathology
Shock, Septic - diagnosis
Shock, Septic - pathology
Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome - diagnosis
Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome - pathology
SOFA
Sepsis
Septic shock
Severe sepsis
qSOFA
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Summary:Sepsis is a heterogeneous clinical syndrome that encompasses infections of many different types and severity. Not surprisingly, it has confounded most attempts to apply a single definition, which has also limited the ability to develop a set of reliable diagnostic criteria. It is perhaps best defined as the different clinical syndromes produced by an immune response to infection that causes harm to the body beyond that of the local effects of the infection.
ISSN:1558-0539
DOI:10.1016/j.emc.2016.08.002