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Category sepsis
CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Initial Management of Sepsis

Reviewed and revised 17 September 2019 OVERVIEW Initial management of sepsis and septic shock involves consideration of: resuscitation early administration of appropriate antibiotics following blood cultures early source control judicious fluid resuscitation, avoiding excess fluids noradrenaline for refractory hypotension (septic shock) inotropes…

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Sepsis Overview

The LITFL Critical Care Compendium (CCC) has numerous entries on sepsis, this page collates them
CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Neutropaenic Sepsis

Febrile neutropaenia (or neutropaenic fever) is defined as: a single temperature measurement >=38.5C, or a sustained temperature >=38C for more than 1 hour; in a patient with a decreased absolute neutrophil count (ANC) of either <0.5 x 109/L, or <1 x 109/L with a predicted nadir of <0.5 x 109/L over the subsequent 48h
CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Procalcitonin

Procalcitonin is the propeptide of calcitonin, a 116-peptide molecule with a molecular weight of 13 kDa. Procalcitonin has been studied as a sepsis biomarker, to help with diagnosing/ ruling out sepsis and to guide the initiation and cessation of antibiotics
CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Septic encephalopathy

Septic encephalopathy is brain dysfunction mediated by the septic inflammatory response, independent of other co-existent causes such as liver or renal dysfunction
CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Steroids and Septic Shock Literature Summaries

Bone R.C. et al (1987) “A controlled clinical trial of high dose methylprednisolone in the treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock” NEJM, 317:653-658 PMID 3306374 RCT n = 382 with sepsis and organ dysfunction methylprednisolone (30mg/kg) vs placebo-> no…