The emergency department resuscitation of patients with sepsis focuses on early recognition, timely administration of appropriate antibiotics, appropriate fluid resuscitation, early vasopressor initiation for patients with sepsis-induced hypoperfusion, and hemodynamic monitoring. Source control is also an important component in the resuscitation of patients with sepsis. Though current guidelines identify source control as a “best practice” the optimal timing of source control remains uncertain. In this podcast, we discuss a recent study that evaluated the timing of source control with mortality in patients with community-acquired sepsis.
You can get CME credit for this episode hereClick here for CME Account Creation Instructions
In this podcast we complete our discussion of articles from the 2017 emergency medicine and critical care literature that have potential practice changing implications. ...
In recent weeks, there have been several important studies and guidelines published that have served to improve our understanding of treating critically ill patients...
To say that 2020 has been a challenging year would be a gross understatement. The courage and determination that all healthcare providers have shown...