Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock

Peter W. Greenwald, Scott Weingart, H. Bryant Nguyen

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEvidence-Based Emergency Medicine
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Pages235-250
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9781405161435
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 27 2009

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Medicine

Keywords

  • Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE)
  • CORTICUS trial and Annane study
  • Mortality probability models (MPM) II and III
  • Multiple Organ Dysfunction Score (MODS)
  • Recombinant human activated protein C (rhAPC) administration
  • Severe sepsis and septic shock
  • Severe sepsis is sepsis associated with organ dysfunction
  • Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS)
  • Vasopressor use in severe sepsis and septic shock

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