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Two days to IMPRESS!!
We want to remind participants in the IMPRESS study that there are now fewer than 2 DAYS left until its start. IMPRESS is an observational study designed to assess the incidence and clinical patterns of septic syndromes on a single day, November 7th, in ICUs and...
New 2012 Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines Released
The much anticipated 2012 Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines were released at the annual Society of Critical Care Medicine congress in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The new guidelines are published in the February 2013 issue of Critical Care Medicine (CCM 2013;41(2):580)...
Preview of the upcoming Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines update
An update of the 2008 Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) guidelines is expected in the early part of 2013. Key elements of this update were previewed at the 2012 meetings of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and the American College of Emergency Physicians...
New York governor Andrew Cuomo calls for standardized sepsis protocols in all NY hospitals
In a proposal released with the 2013 State of the State address, New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo called for the statewide establishment of standardized, evidence-based protocols to facilitate rapid and accurate diagnosis and treatment of sepsis in all New York...
Should fever be treated in septic patients?
The usual knee-jerk response to fever is to reduce it (fever here is defined as rectal temperatures >38.3ºC / 101ºF). Although clinicians know that typical fevers below approximately 40-41ºC (104-105.8ºF) are generally harmless for most patients, fevers below this...