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SAN DIEGO – About half of sepsis-related deaths are in people with normal blood pressure and normal or intermediate serum lactate levels (less than 4 mmol/L) on admission, suggesting that perhaps in some cases, sepsis that could have been extinguished early got out of hand before it was recognized, according to a review of about 7 million adult hospital admissions by Kaiser Permanente researchers.
In other words, even though death rates have come down for patients with severe sepsis, there’s still a ways to go to recognize and treat less severe cases in time. Lead investigator Dr. Vincent Liu of the Kaiser Permanente division of research, Oakland, Calif., explained the problem – and what Kaiser’s doing about it – at an international conference of the American Thoracic Society.
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SAN DIEGO – About half of sepsis-related deaths are in people with normal blood pressure and normal or intermediate serum lactate levels (less than 4 mmol/L) on admission, suggesting that perhaps in some cases, sepsis that could have been extinguished early got out of hand before it was recognized, according to a review of about 7 million adult hospital admissions by Kaiser Permanente researchers.
In other words, even though death rates have come down for patients with severe sepsis, there’s still a ways to go to recognize and treat less severe cases in time. Lead investigator Dr. Vincent Liu of the Kaiser Permanente division of research, Oakland, Calif., explained the problem – and what Kaiser’s doing about it – at an international conference of the American Thoracic Society.
The video associated with this article is no longer available on this site. Please view all of our videos on the MDedge YouTube channel
SAN DIEGO – About half of sepsis-related deaths are in people with normal blood pressure and normal or intermediate serum lactate levels (less than 4 mmol/L) on admission, suggesting that perhaps in some cases, sepsis that could have been extinguished early got out of hand before it was recognized, according to a review of about 7 million adult hospital admissions by Kaiser Permanente researchers.
In other words, even though death rates have come down for patients with severe sepsis, there’s still a ways to go to recognize and treat less severe cases in time. Lead investigator Dr. Vincent Liu of the Kaiser Permanente division of research, Oakland, Calif., explained the problem – and what Kaiser’s doing about it – at an international conference of the American Thoracic Society.
The video associated with this article is no longer available on this site. Please view all of our videos on the MDedge YouTube channel
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