Severe Sepsis Care in the Emergency Department, An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Download or read book Severe Sepsis Care in the Emergency Department, An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America written by John C. Perkins Jr and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2016-12-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drs. John C. Perkins and Michael E. Winters have assembled an expert team of authors on the topic of Sepsis in the Emergency Department. Article topics include: Defining and Diagnosing Sepsis; Appropriate Antibiotic Therapy; Severe Sepsis Resuscitation in Resource Limited Settings; Source Control in Severe Sepsis; Considerations in Special Populations with Severe Sepsis; Pediatric Severe Sepsis Resuscitation; The New Usual Care; Prehospital Sepsis Care; Endpoints of Sepsis Resuscitation; Pitfalls in the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Disposition of Severe Sepsis; Biomarkers in Sepsis; Vasopressors and Inotropes in Sepsis; and Sepsis Quality Measures and Performance Improvement.