Severe Sepsis Care In The Emergency Department An Issue Of Emergency Medicine Clinics Of North America E Book

Download or read book Severe Sepsis Care in the Emergency Department, An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, E-Book written by John C. Perkins Jr and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2016-12-02 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drs. John C. Perkins and Michael E. Winters have assembled an expert team of authors on the topic of Sepsis in the Emergency Department. Article topics include: Defining and Diagnosing Sepsis; Appropriate Antibiotic Therapy; Severe Sepsis Resuscitation in Resource Limited Settings; Source Control in Severe Sepsis; Considerations in Special Populations with Severe Sepsis; Pediatric Severe Sepsis Resuscitation; The New Usual Care; Prehospital Sepsis Care; Endpoints of Sepsis Resuscitation; Pitfalls in the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Disposition of Severe Sepsis; Biomarkers in Sepsis; Vasopressors and Inotropes in Sepsis; and Sepsis Quality Measures and Performance Improvement.