Sepsis Treatment and Symptoms resources Blood Poisoning; Septic Shock; Septicemia
Sepsis (in Greek Σήψις, putrefaction) is a serious medical condition, resulting from the immune response to a severe infection. Septicemia is sepsis of the bloodstream caused by bacteremia, which is the presence of bacteria in the bloodstream. The term septicemia is also used to refer to sepsis in general. Symptoms The immunological response that causes sepsis is a systemic inflammatory response causing widespread activation of inflammation and coagulation pathways. This may progre ...
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Resources
- Blood Culture (Nemours Foundation)
- Blood Cultures (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
- Blood Poisoning (Septicemia) (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Sepsis (National Institutes of Health)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Septicemia (National Institutes of Health)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Shock, Septic (National Institutes of Health)
- Consumers Need to Be Aware of Threat of Sepsis (Society of Critical Care Medicine)
- Guide to Severe Sepsis (Society of Critical Care Medicine)
- Key to Accurately Diagnosing Sepsis Lies in Consensus Definition (Society of Critical Care Medicine)
- Low Doses of Steroids Improve Survival in Patients with Septic Shock (American College of Physicians)
- Myths and Facts about Sepsis and Severe Sepsis (Society of Critical Care Medicine)
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- Possible New Test for Diagnosing Sepsis (American College of Physicians)
- Research Brief: Stop Cell Death, Help Treat Sepsis? (National Institute of General Medical Sciences)
- Sepsis (Medline Plus)
- Sepsis (Nemours Foundation)
- Sepsis (Cleveland Clinic)
- Sepsis (Cleveland Clinic)
- Sepsis (Google Health)
- Sepsis Statistics (Society of Critical Care Medicine)
- Sepsis: What You Should Know (Society of Critical Care Medicine)
- Septic shock (Google Health)
- Septicemia (Google Health)
- Toxic Shock Syndrome (MayoClinic)
- Toxic Shock Syndrome (Nemours Foundation)