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- Bellomo, Rinaldo, et al.
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Xigris 2011 : deja vu all over again?
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Ingår i: Critical Care and Resuscitation. - 1441-2772. ; 13:4, s. 211-212
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- Castegren, Markus, et al.
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Initial levels of organ failure, microbial findings and mortality in intensive care-treated primary, secondary and tertiary sepsis
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Ingår i: Critical Care and Resuscitation. - 1441-2772. ; 17:3, s. 174-181
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objective: Analysis of whether patients with primary, secondary and tertiary sepsis, defined by the presence or absence of recent systemic inflammation-inducing events before the onset of sepsis, differ in clinical presentation, microbiological test results, treatment received and outcome. Design, setting and participants: A retrospective observational study in a single, general intensive care unit, of all patients treated for severe sepsis or septic shock from 2006 to 2011. Patients with haematological malignancies, with immunosuppressive diseases or being treated with immunosuppressive drugs were excluded. Interventions: None. Main outcome measures: Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score, incidence of organ failure, microbiological results of blood cultures and mortality. Results: We included 213 patients, who were classified as having primary (n = 121), secondary (n = 65) or tertiary sepsis (n = 27). The groups differed significantly in SOFA score, the incidence of kidney failure and coagulation failure at onset of sepsis in the ICU, as well as in blood culture findings. No differences in 7-day or 28-day mortality were seen, but the time of death occurred earlier among non-survivors in the primary sepsis group. Conclusions: Inflammatory insults before the onset of sepsis affect the clinical picture, blood microbial findings, and in non-survivors, the time of death. These results could, if validated in a prospective study, form a basis for a novel and simple strategy for stratifying patients in clinical studies for immunomodulation therapies in sepsis.
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- Frost, Steven A, et al.
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Unplanned admission to the intensive care unit in the very elderly and risk of in-hospital mortality.
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Ingår i: Critical care and resuscitation. - 1441-2772. ; 12:3, s. 171-6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: Unplanned admission to the intensive care unit has been shown to significantly increase the risk of inhospital mortality. Medical advances and increased expectations have resulted in a greater number of very elderly patients (80 years and over) being admitted to the ICU. The risk of in-hospital death associated with unplanned admission to the ICU in very elderly patients has not been clearly defined. OBJECTIVE: To estimate the risk of in-hospital mortality associated with unplanned admission to the ICU in patients aged 80 years and over. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Retrospective review of an adult intensive care database. The setting was Liverpool Hospital, a large teaching hospital in Sydney, Australia, with a 28-bed ICU that has about 2000 admissions per year. We analysed data on very elderly patients (n = 1680), aged 80 years or more, admitted to the ICU between 1 January 1997 and 31 December 2007. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Baseline risk factors for inhospital mortality. RESULTS: Mortality among patients with unplanned ICU admissions was 47%, compared with 25% in patients with planned admissions (adjusted rate ratio [RR], 1.92 [95% CI, 1.59-2.32]). An estimated 50% of the overall risk of inhospital death among very elderly patients was attributable to a combination of unplanned admission to the ICU, the presence of at least one comorbid condition, acute renal failure and respiratory failure requiring intubation. CONCLUSION: Unplanned admission to the ICU increases the risk of in-hospital mortality in very elderly patients. At least 50% of the risk of in-hospital death in this age group is attributable to a combination of unplanned ICU admission, comorbidity (≥1 comorbid condition), acute renal failure and respiratory failure.
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