tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "Year in review in Critical Care, 2004: sepsis and multi-organ failure."

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Year in review in Critical Care, 2004: sepsis and multi-organ failure. | Available online http content 9 4 409 Review Year in review in Critical Care 2004 sepsis and multi-organ failure James M O Brien Jr1 Naeem A Ali1 and Edward Abraham2 Assistant Professor Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine The Ohio State University Medical Center Columbus Ohio USA 2Roger Sherman Mitchell Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Vice Chair Department of Medicine Head Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center Denver Colorado USA Corresponding author James M O Brien Jr obrien-2@ Published online 23 May 2005 This article is online at http content 9 4 409 2005 BioMed Central Ltd Introduction During 2004 Critical Care published a broad range of original research focused on sepsis and the multi-organ dysfunction syndrome MODS . These studies included epidemiologic surveys assessments of the pathogenesis of the syndrome analyses of prognostic variables in affected patients and new therapeutic modalities. National rates of sepsis In an attempt to determine country-specific rates of sepsis three studies estimated the incidence of sepsis in the Netherlands 1 in Norway 2 and in Brazil 3 . van Gestel and colleagues 1 performed a cross-sectional survey of patients in 47 Dutch intensive care units ICUs using American College of Chest Physicians Society of Critical Care Medicine consensus criteria for sepsis severe sepsis or septic shock 4 . The authors estimated an incidence of severe sepsis of cases 1000 population per year indicating that severe sepsis accounts for of all hospital admissions and for 11 of all ICU admissions in the Netherlands. Flaatten 2 used International Classification of Diseases ICD-10 codes in a national dataset in Norway to detect episodes of sepsis. They found an incidence of sepsis of cases 1000 population. Among hospitalized patients the sepsis and severe sepsis rates were and .