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- Sepsis is an illness in which the body has a severe response to bacteria or other germs. The body may develop this inflammatory response by the immune system to microbes in the blood, urine, lungs, skin, or other tissues. A popular term for sepsis is blood poisoning.
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Dec 24, 2022 · Sepsis is a potentially deadly medical condition characterized by a whole-body inflammatory state (called a systemic inflammatory response syndrome or SIRS) that is triggered by an infection. Septic shock is a medical condition as a result of severe infection and sepsis, though the microbe may be systemic or localized to a particular site.
Oct 10, 2007 · What is sepsis? Systemic illness caused by microbial invasion of normally sterile parts of the body is referred to as “sepsis.” This is a term that specifically serves to differentiate an illness of microbial origin from an identical clinical syndrome that can arise in several non-microbial conditions, of which pancreatitis is the archetype.
- Andrew Lever, Iain Mackenzie
- 10.1136/bmj.39346.495880.AE
- 2007
- BMJ. 2007 Oct 27; 335(7625): 879-883.
**Sepsis definition: Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) that has a PROVEN or SUSPECTED microbial etiology (BACTEREMIA IS NOT REQUIRED, bacteria may invade blood OR just release toxins into blood)
Mar 21, 2019 · Sepsis is a medical emergency that describes the body’s systemic immunological response to an infectious process that can lead to end-stage organ dysfunction and death.
- Bishal Gyawali, Karan Ramakrishna, Amit S Dhamoon
- 2019
Sepsis is defined as life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. Evidence of organ dysfunction includes clinical and laboratory abnormalities of the respiratory system, coagulation, liver, cardiovascular system, nervous system, and kidneys ( Table 79–1 ).
May 7, 2021 · Introduction. Sepsis was redefined in 2016 as life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection [ 1 ]. This definition encompasses a group of patients that is heterogeneous in both clinical features and underlying pathophysiology.
Sep 9, 2018 · Sepsis is a medical emergency that describes the body’s sys-temic immunological response to an infectious process that can lead to end-stage organ dysfunction and death.