Sepsis Overview
OVERVIEW
The LITFL Critical Care Compendium (CCC) has numerous entries on sepsis, this page collates them
SEPSIS ENTRIES
- CCC — Sepsis definitions and diagnosis
- CCC — Sepsis Pathophysiology
- CCC — Initial management of severe sepsis and septic shock
- CCC — Early Goal Directed Therapy in Septic Shock
- CCC — Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines 2012
- CCC — Unresolved sepsis and antibiotic treatment failure
- CCC — Sepsis Literature Summaries
- CCC — Sepsis Biomarkers
- CCC — Sepsis and Pregnancy
- CCC — Lactate Clearance vs ScvO2 Monitoring in Severe Sepsis
- CCC — Neutropaenic sepsis
- CCC — Catecholamine excess, Beta Blockade and Critical Illness
- CCC — Fluid bolus therapy
- CCC — Corticosteroids in Refractory Shock
- CCC — Steroids and Septic Shock Literature Summaries
- CCC — Septic cardiomyopathy
- CCC — Septic encephalopathy
ANTIBIOTICS
- CCC — Antibiotic Guidelines in ICU
- CCC — Antimicrobial dosing and kill characteristics
- CCC — Antibiotic timing
Critical Care
Compendium
Chris is an Intensivist and ECMO specialist at the Alfred ICU in Melbourne. He is also a Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University. He is a co-founder of the Australia and New Zealand Clinician Educator Network (ANZCEN) and is the Lead for the ANZCEN Clinician Educator Incubator programme. He is on the Board of Directors for the Intensive Care Foundation and is a First Part Examiner for the College of Intensive Care Medicine. He is an internationally recognised Clinician Educator with a passion for helping clinicians learn and for improving the clinical performance of individuals and collectives.
After finishing his medical degree at the University of Auckland, he continued post-graduate training in New Zealand as well as Australia’s Northern Territory, Perth and Melbourne. He has completed fellowship training in both intensive care medicine and emergency medicine, as well as post-graduate training in biochemistry, clinical toxicology, clinical epidemiology, and health professional education.
He is actively involved in in using translational simulation to improve patient care and the design of processes and systems at Alfred Health. He coordinates the Alfred ICU’s education and simulation programmes and runs the unit’s education website, INTENSIVE. He created the ‘Critically Ill Airway’ course and teaches on numerous courses around the world. He is one of the founders of the FOAM movement (Free Open-Access Medical education) and is co-creator of litfl.com, the RAGE podcast, the Resuscitology course, and the SMACC conference.
His one great achievement is being the father of three amazing children.
On Twitter, he is @precordialthump.
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