TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Chapter 138. Sepsis
A1  - Felner, Kevin
A1  - Smith, Robert L.
A2  - McKean, Sylvia C.
A2  - Ross, John J.
A2  - Dressler, Daniel D.
A2  - Brotman, Daniel J.
A2  - Ginsberg, Jeffrey S.
Y1  - 2012
N1  - 
T2  - Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine
AB  - What  is  the  definition  of  systemic  inflammatory  response  syndrome  (SIRS)  and  how  do  you  differentiate  SIRS  from  sepsis,  severe  sepsis,  and  septic  shock?Which  patients  presenting  with  sepsis  need  admission  to  the  intensive  care  unit  (ICU)?Which  septic  patients  need  invasive  monitoring  (arterial  catheter,  central  venous  catheter)?What  interventions  in  the  treatment  of  sepsis  improve  mortality?Which  septic  patients  deserve  empiric  steroids  as  part  of  the  therapeutic  regimen?  
SN  - 
PB  - The McGraw-Hill Companies
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/23
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56204065
ER  -