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Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome

2007
The multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) is defined as the progressive, potentially reversible dysfunction of two or more organ systems following acute, life-threatening disruption of systemic homeostasis. Now nearly 40 years since its initial description [1], MODS remains the leading cause of mortality among patients requiring ICU care ...
F. M. Pieracci, S. R. Eachempati, P. S. Barie   +2 more
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Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome: infection or hypersensitivity reaction?

European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2010
Anticonvulsant hypersensitivity syndrome is a potentially life-threatening delayed hypersensitivity reaction characterized by the triad of fever, rash and multiorgan involvement, which usually occurs within the first weeks of introduction of an antiepileptic drug.
Dreesman, Alexandra, Hoorens, Anne, Hachimi-Idrissi, Said   +2 more
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The pediatric multiple organ dysfunction syndrome

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2009
To review the epidemiology of pediatric multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) and summarize current concepts regarding the pathophysiology of shock, organ dysfunction, and nosocomial infections in this population.A MEDLINE-based literature search using the keywords MODS and child, without any restriction to the idiom.Critically ill children may ...
François, Proulx, Jean Sébastien, Joyal, M Michele, Mariscalco, Stéphane, Leteurtre, Francis, Leclerc, Jacques, Lacroix   +5 more
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Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome in children*

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2003
Delineation of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) is important because of its frequent occurrence in the pediatric intensive care unit and its association with high mortality. However, studies in children are scarce, all have been done in developed countries, and, unlike adult studies, some showed that sepsis is not related to mortality.
José A, Tantaleán, Rosa J, León, Alejandro A, Santos, Eduardo, Sánchez   +3 more
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Perioperative multiple organ dysfunction syndrome

Seminars in Anesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Pain, 1999
A SIGNIFICANT number of our patients are critically ill at the time of surgery or are at risk for perioperative critical illness (Table 1). 1-6 The spectrum of care these patients require includes preoperative examination, evaluation, and counseling; intraoperative monitoring and management; acute postoperative therapy in the recovery room or ...
Ken Wood, Lisa Connery, Douglas B. Coursin   +2 more
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Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome

2011
Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) is the final common pathway that results from a wide variety of insults resulting in widespread endothelial dysfunction and organ injury. The classic definition is the sequential loss of function of three organ systems, namely the lung, liver, and kidney. Although this is the definition described in adults and
Nikoleta S. Kolovos, Barry P. Markovitz
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Pediatric sepsis and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome

Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 2001
Systemic inflammatory response syndrome may be viewed as the systemic expression of cytokine signals that normally function on an autocrine or paracrine level. Sepsis is defined as systemic inflammatory response syndrome caused by an infection. Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome may represent the end stage of severe systemic inflammatory response ...
O, Despond, F, Proulx, J A, Carcillo, J, Lacroix   +3 more
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Antibiotic Dosing in Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome

Chest, 2011
Although early and appropriate antibiotic therapy remains the cornerstone of success for the treatment of septic shock, few data exist to guide antibiotic dose optimization in critically ill patients, particularly those with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS).
Ulldemolins, Marta, Roberts, Jason A., Lipman, Jeffrey, Rello, Jordi   +3 more
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Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome

2001
Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) is a common cause of death among critically ill surgical patients. Although a substantial population of those who die subsequent to critical surgical illness have functional failure of multiple organs, the precise cause of death is more commonly withdrawal of specific supports.
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Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.

The National medical journal of India, 1998
The simultaneous dysfunction of several organs represents a challenging task for the intensivist. Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) are expressions of an inappropriate generalized inflammatory response of the host to a variety of infectious or non-infectious stimuli.
J, Wadhwa, R, Sood
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