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HealthDay News — Among adults in the intensive care unit with sepsis or septic shock, the use of prolonged β-lactam antibiotic infusions is associated with lower risk of 90-day mortality ...

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For Septic Shock, Another Toss-up ... The Crystalloid Liberal or Vasopressors Early Resuscitation in Sepsis (CLOVERS) trial included 1,563 adults (age about 60; less than half female; ...

Use of Granulocyte Colony-stimulating Factor in Patients with Severe Sepsis or Septic Shock. Rima A. Mohammad. Disclosures. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2010;67(15):1238-1245. In This Article.

However, the patients with both conditions were 48% less likely to receive guideline-directed IV fluid therapy compared with those in septic shock only: 25% vs 37% (P < .001). Multivariate ...

About The Study: Among adults in the intensive care unit who had sepsis or septic shock, the use of prolonged β-lactam antibiotic infusions was associated with a reduced risk of 90-day mortality ...

Among patients with solid tumors, septic shock was associated with a 69.4% 28-day mortality rate, according to a study published in CHEST.“Even though septic shock is a well-recognized deadly ...

Sepsis occurs in approximately 1.7 million hospitalizations in the U.S. with in more than a third of hospitalizations resulting in death. Patients with septic shock benefit from steroid ...