Sepsis

Post Conference Letter, 6/25/08

June 29th, 2008 at 12:17 pm by Nick

Hello everyone,

Thank you to those of you who passed up Ponte Vedra or new jobs to come to conference this week. Many thanks to our resident speakers, Matt, Shefali and Bing, and to our faculty presenters — Dr. Spina and Dr. Nassisi. Also thanks to the neurology department for their participation in our joint conference.

Below are some topics from conference that for which I found more resources, or that I just thought warranted repeating.  Feel free to add your own thoughts in the comments section.

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Lactate in the ED, Death on the Floors

July 9th, 2006 at 2:52 am by Nick

I gave a talk last week on the workup of nonsevere sepsis that referenced a bunch of little papers, and a few big ones… We’ll leave the discussion of the landmark 2001 EGDT severe-sepsis talk for another time (sigh). Right now I just wanted to go over an Annals paper (AEM Vol 45, No 5, May ‘05) by Shapiro et al from Beth-Israel Deaconess, about lactate in the ED. They were looking at the value of ED serum lactate levels as a predictor of later mortality – echoing studies on ICU lactate and mortality for patients with septic shock, burns, or trauma.

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