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Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock

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Angus, Derek C., van der Poll, Tom·2013·New England Journal of Medicine
DOI 10.1056/nejmra1208623
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epsis is one of the oldest and most elusive syndromes in medicine.Hippocrates claimed that sepsis (σ ήψις) was the process by which flesh rots, swamps generate foul airs, and wounds fester. 1 Galen later considered sepsis a laudable event, necessary for wound healing. 2 With the confirmation of germ theory by Semmelweis, Pasteur, and others, sepsis was recast as a systemic infection, often described as "blood poisoning," and assumed to be the result of the host's invasion by pathogenic organisms that then spread in the bloodstream.However, with the advent of modern antibiotics, germ theory did not fully explain the pathogenesis of sepsis: many patients with sepsis died despite successful eradication of the inciting pathogen.Thus, researchers suggested that it was the host, not the germ, that drove the pathogenesis of sepsis.3 In 1992, an international consensus panel defined sepsis as a systemic inflammatory response to infection, noting that sepsis could arise in response to multiple infectious causes and that septicemia was neither a necessary condition nor a helpful term.4 Instead, the panel proposed the term "severe sepsis" to describe instances in which sepsis is complicated by acute organ dysfunction, and they codified "septic shock" as sepsis complicated by either hypotension that is refractory to fluid resuscitation or by hyperlactatemia.In 2003, a second consensus panel endorsed most of these concepts, with the caveat that signs of a systemic inflammatory response, such as tachycardia or an elevated white-cell count, occur in many infectious and noninfectious conditions and therefore are not helpful in distinguishing sepsis from other conditions.5 Thus, "severe sepsis" and "sepsis" are sometimes used interchangeably to describe the syndrome of infection complicated by acute organ dysfunction. Incidence a nd C ause sThe incidence of severe sepsis depends on how acute organ dysfunction is defined and on whether that dysfunction is attributed to an underlying infection.Organ dysfunction is often defined by the provision of supportive therapy (e.g., mechanical ventilation), and epidemiologic studies thus count the "treated incidence" rather than the actual incidence.In the United States, severe sepsis is recorded in 2% of patients admitted to the hospital.Of these patients, half are treated in the intensive care unit (ICU), representing 10% of all ICU admissions.6,7 The number of cases in the United States exceeds 750,000 per year 7 and was recently reported to be rising.8 However, several factors -new International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision (ICD-9) coding rules, confusion over the distinction between septicemia and severe sepsis, the increasing capacity to provide intensive care, and increased awareness and surveillance -confound the interpretation of temporal trends.Studies from other high-income countries show similar rates of sepsis in the ICU. 9 The incidence of severe sepsis outside modern ICUs, especially in parts ofThe New England

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Authors
Angus, D. C., & van der Poll, T.
Venue
New England Journal of Medicine
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Published
2013-08-29
Volume
369
Issue
9
Pages
840-851
ISSN
  • 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
  • 1533-4406
DOI
10.1056/nejmra1208623
OpenAlex
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Cited by
3,961
References
24
FWCI
209.49
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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