Abstract
The challenge of sepsis
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Professor of Medicine, Brown University, Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, USA
The large majority of respondents believed that patients are treated too late to reverse the onset of sepsis. Patients and their families have a poor understanding of the condition, which makes communication with care givers difficult. These findings identify the challenges most clinicians face when dealing with sepsis in the intensive care unit, namely how best to identify these patients, when to initiate treatment, how to monitor the progress of the disease, and how to communicate with patients and families about the nature of one of the most common diseases in critically ill patients
Until recently few interventions were available to clinicians that may improve survival in patients critically ill with severe sepsis or septic shock
Summary
Professor of Medicine, Brown University, Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, USA. These findings identify the challenges most clinicians face when dealing with sepsis in the intensive care unit, namely how best to identify these patients, when to initiate treatment, how to monitor the progress (both resolution and deterioration) of the disease, and how to communicate with patients and families about the nature of one of the most common diseases in critically ill patients.
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