A model of porcine polymicrobial septic shock
Background Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. Mortality of patients with sepsis is high and largely unchanged throughout the past decades.
Finnja Marie Zurek-Leffers +12 more
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IntroductionSeptic shock, largely caused by intestinal perforation, is the most common critical illness in intensive care unit (ICU). As an important quality control strategy in ICU, deep vein thrombosis (DVT) prevention is routinely used in the ...
Lu Wang +9 more
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Protein C preserves microcirculation in a model of neonatal septic shock [PDF]
Objectives: Sepsis remains a disease with a high mortality in neonates. Microcirculatory impairment plays a pivotal role in the development of multiorgan failure in septic newborns.
Nold, Marcel Friedrich +4 more
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Rate of Admission and Risk Factors of Sepsis and Septic Shock Patients in Emergency Intensive Care Unit [PDF]
Background: Every year, millions of people are affected with sepsis and septic shock, which pose significant challenges to healthcare providers. Septic shock is the most severe form of sepsis.
Hatem Raafat Mostafa El-Malah +2 more
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Arterial catheterization and in-hospital mortality in sepsis: a propensity score-matched study
Background Despite the extensive use of arterial catheterization (AC), clinical effectiveness of AC to alter the outcomes among patients with sepsis and septic shock has not been evaluated.
Qitian Ou +8 more
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4G/5G polymorphism of PAI-1 gene is associated with multiple organ dysfunction and septic shock in pneumonia induced severe sepsis: prospective, observational, genetic study. [PDF]
In Caucasian patients with severe sepsis due to pneumonia carriers of the 4G allele of PAI-1 polymorphism have higher risk for multiple organ dysfunction syndrome and septic shock and in agreement they showed more fulminant disease progression based on ...
Aladzsity, István +13 more
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The Role of Complement System in Septic Shock
Septic shock is a critical clinical condition with a high mortality rate. A better understanding of the underlying mechanisms is important to develop effective therapies.
Jean Charchaflieh +8 more
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Major sepsis study confirms back to basics approach [PDF]
In 2001 Rivers et al. published a landmark study in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that in a single centre, involving patients presenting to an emergency department with severe sepsis and septic shock, an early goal-directed therapy (EGDT ...
Nathwani, D.
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Septic shock: perspective methods of diagnostics and therapy based on immunopathogenesis
Based on the III International Consensus on the definition of Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3), the modern definition of septic shock was proposed: “Septic shock is a type of sepsis that is accompanied by severe hemodynamic, metabolic and cellular ...
L. I. Gomanova
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An efficacy and mechanism evaluation study of Levosimendan for the Prevention of Acute oRgan Dysfunction in Sepsis (LeoPARDS): protocol for a randomized controlled trial. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Organ dysfunction consequent to infection ('severe sepsis') is the leading cause of admission to an intensive care unit (ICU). In both animal models and early clinical studies the calcium channel sensitizer levosimendan has been demonstrated ...
McAuley, Daniel F +44 more
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