Sepsis

The woman in her 20s and her unborn child died at Palmerston North Hospital after her admission to intensive care with sepsis was delayed.

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The heavily pregnant woman in her 20s and her unborn child died with signs of severe sepsis.

PM Jacinda Ardern says the death of a heavily pregnant woman in her 20s with sepsis is 'devastating'.

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Purpose: To evaluate the anti-inflammatory effects of compounds extracted from Guizhou ethnic medicine in the Karst area and investigate their molecular ...

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Epic Systems has revamped its widely criticized sepsis prediction model in a bid to improve its accuracy and make its alerts more meaningful.

This study aims to summarize all randomized controlled trials examining dexmedetomidine use in sepsis patients. Check out now!

There is a need for more randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to identify the subset of patients with sepsis who would benefit most from dexmedetomidine and to establish an appropriate dose schedule for this drug. Dexmedetomidine increased the incidence of arrhythmias (RR 1.43, 95% CI [0.59, 3.51]), but the total risk of adverse events was similar between dexmedetomidine and the other sedatives (RR 1.43, 95% CI [0.59, 3.51]). Dexmedetomidine use in patients with sepsis has been the subject of numerous randomized controlled trials (RCTs), and this review aimed to compile the results of all of them. Neither the length of time time spent in the ICU (SMD -0.22; 95% CI [-0.85, 0.41]) nor the time spent on mechanical ventilation (SMD 0.12; 95% CI [-1.10, 1.35]), the occurrence of delirium (RR 0.98; 95% CI [0.72, 1.40]), nor the levels of alanine aminotransferase and creatinine at 24 hours were significantly decreased. Researchers compared the effects of dexmedetomidine to those of other sedatives in adult patients with sepsis in a meta-analysis that comprised randomized controlled trials. Dexmedetomidine was associated with a lower risk of death from any cause (hazard ratio [HR] 0.83; 95% CI [0.69, 0.99]) and a reduced inflammatory response (levels of interleukin 6 and tumor necrosis factor alpha after 24 hours: standardized mean difference (SMD) – 2.15; 95% CI [-3.25, -1.05] and SMD -1.07, 95% CI [-1.92, -0.22]).