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Evolution of the Concept of Sepsis

Sepsis has been recognized for more than 2500 years, but the criteria used to identify it have evolved. Sepsis is an infection associated with some degree of organ dysfunction—put very simplistically, sepsis is a ‘bad infection’. Specific criteria may be useful for research purposes but have less va...

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Autor principal: Vincent, Jean-Louis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9686931/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36358234
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics11111581
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description Sepsis has been recognized for more than 2500 years, but the criteria used to identify it have evolved. Sepsis is an infection associated with some degree of organ dysfunction—put very simplistically, sepsis is a ‘bad infection’. Specific criteria may be useful for research purposes but have less value in day-to-day clinical practice. What is relevant here is early recognition and some awareness of severity so that appropriate therapy can be started without delay.
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spelling pubmed-96869312022-11-25 Evolution of the Concept of Sepsis Vincent, Jean-Louis Antibiotics (Basel) Perspective Sepsis has been recognized for more than 2500 years, but the criteria used to identify it have evolved. Sepsis is an infection associated with some degree of organ dysfunction—put very simplistically, sepsis is a ‘bad infection’. Specific criteria may be useful for research purposes but have less value in day-to-day clinical practice. What is relevant here is early recognition and some awareness of severity so that appropriate therapy can be started without delay. MDPI 2022-11-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9686931/ /pubmed/36358234 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics11111581 Text en © 2022 by the author. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9686931/
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