Investigators sought to identify factors associated with septic shock development and 30-day mortality in patients admitted to an intensive care unit for treatment of candidemia.
Investigators conducted a study to determine whether empiric antibiotic therapy with adjunctive gentamicin improves outcomes in patients with septic shock admitted to the intensive care unit.
The researchers’ objective was to determine whether machine learning-derived estimated individual corticosteroid therapy effect yields better results than treat all or treat no one strategies in adult patients with septic shock.
Investigators analyzed a potential link between community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection and increased short-term risk for myocardial infarction, which is associated with subsequent mortality.
A large proportion of patients with septic shock but who present to the ED with vague symptoms not specific to infection have a significantly higher mortality rate than those with symptoms that are explicit to an infection.
Delayed lactate measurement is associated with delayed antibiotic administration and increased mortality in patients with increased lactate levels.
Although the Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome criteria have been used for decades to identify sepsis in patients with suspected infection, they have been re-evaluated in the Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock.
Early antibiotic administration in treating infection has evident biological plausibility, however, time-sensitivity to outcomes appears to be most relevant in septic shock.
Study demonstrated a new approach to incorporate time (“delay”) when analyzing the effect on outcomes and provided new evidence for clinical practice and research of severe sepsis or septic shock.
Researchers evaluated the prognostic significance of the cutoff value for lactate via comparison of clinical presentation and outcome between patients with septic shock with high and low lactate levels.
