Sepsis Hospitalization and Risk of Subsequent Cardiovascular Events in Adults

Sepsis Hospitalization and Risk of Subsequent Cardiovascular Events in Adults

Adult sepsis survivors experience an increased hazard of major cardiovascular events compared to survivors of a non-sepsis hospitalization. 254,241 adult sepsis survivors were matched to adult survivors of non-sepsis hospitalization... read more

Therapeutic Hyperthermia Associated with Improved Survival in Afebrile Critically Ill Patients with Sepsis

Therapeutic Hyperthermia Associated with Improved Survival in Afebrile Critically Ill Patients with Sepsis

Participants randomized to external forced-air warming did not have a difference in HLA-DR expression or IFN-γ production. In this pilot study, however, 28-day mortality was lower in the intervention group. Future research... read more

Arterial pH with Hemodynamic Response Association to Vasopressin in Patients with Septic Shock

Arterial pH with Hemodynamic Response Association to Vasopressin in Patients with Septic Shock

Compared with higher arterial pH, patients with septic shock and low arterial pH had lower odds of vasopressin response and higher catecholamine doses after vasopressin initiation. Similar to other vasopressors, the clinical... read more

Adult Sepsis Hospitalization and Risk of Subsequent Cardiovascular Events

Adult Sepsis Hospitalization and Risk of Subsequent Cardiovascular Events

Adult sepsis survivors experience an increased hazard of major cardiovascular events compared to survivors of a non-sepsis hospitalization. 254,241 adult sepsis survivors were matched to adult survivors of non-sepsis hospitalization... read more

Inflammatory and Immunosuppressive Responses to COVID-19 and Bacterial Sepsis

Inflammatory and Immunosuppressive Responses to COVID-19 and Bacterial Sepsis

Bacterial sepsis patients had early, severe inflammation, profound immune suppression, and life-threatening organ dysfunction that resolved over time; SARS-CoV-2 patients had less severe early inflammation and organ dysfunction... read more

Predicting Sepsis Severity at First Clinical Presentation

Predicting Sepsis Severity at First Clinical Presentation

The severity and endotype signatures indicate that distinct immune signatures precede the onset of severe sepsis and lethality, providing a method to triage early sepsis patients. Gene expression signatures were obtained... read more

Plasma Hyaluronan, Hyaluronidase Activity and Endogenous Hyaluronidase Inhibition in Sepsis

Plasma Hyaluronan, Hyaluronidase Activity and Endogenous Hyaluronidase Inhibition in Sepsis

Elevated plasma hyaluronan levels coincided with a concomitant decrease in effective plasma HYAL activity and increase of endogenous plasma HYAL inhibition both in experimental and clinical sepsis. In acute pancreatitis,... read more

Association Between Incident Delirium Treatment with Haloperidol and Mortality in Critically Ill Adults

Association Between Incident Delirium Treatment with Haloperidol and Mortality in Critically Ill Adults

Treatment of incident delirium and its symptoms with haloperidol may be associated with a dose-dependent improvement in survival. Future randomized trials need to confirm these results. Patients were evaluated tid for... read more

Epidemiology, Outcomes, and Trends of Patients with Sepsis and Opioid-Related Hospitalizations

Epidemiology, Outcomes, and Trends of Patients with Sepsis and Opioid-Related Hospitalizations

Sepsis is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with opioid-related hospitalizations, and opioid-related hospitalizations contribute disproportionately to sepsis-associated deaths among younger patients.... read more

Retrospective Analysis of Chest X-ray Severity Scoring System of COVID-19 Pneumonia

Retrospective Analysis of Chest X-ray Severity Scoring System of COVID-19 Pneumonia

The research will be retrospective, and will include a review of medical history of all patients admitted in the COVID-19 ICU of the University hospital Osijek during 2020 and 2021. Associated comorbidity, hospital admission... read more

Evaluating Vitamin C in Septic Shock

Evaluating Vitamin C in Septic Shock

Vitamin C monotherapy failed to significantly reduce mortality in septic shock patients as hypothesized. Our findings do not support its routine clinical use for this purpose. Of 124 subjects receiving study drug and included... read more

Hypocalcemia Association with In-hospital Mortality and Complications in Patients with Acute Pulmonary Embolism

Hypocalcemia Association with In-hospital Mortality and Complications in Patients with Acute Pulmonary Embolism

Pulmonary Embolism (PE) patients with hypocalcemia have higher in-hospital mortality than those without hypocalcemia. The in-hospital complications were also higher, along with longer length of stay. In the 2017 NIS, 187,989... read more

MIF But Not MIF-2 Recruits Inflammatory Macrophages in an Experimental Polymicrobial Sepsis Model

MIF But Not MIF-2 Recruits Inflammatory Macrophages in an Experimental Polymicrobial Sepsis Model

Excessive inflammation drives the progression from sepsis to septic shock. Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is of interest because MIF promoter polymorphisms predict mortality in different infections, and anti-MIF... read more

Quantifying the Burden of Viral Sepsis During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

Quantifying the Burden of Viral Sepsis During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has resulted in millions of deaths worldwide and countless more admissions to hospitals and ICUs. Since... read more