Medscape

Early Treatment of Pediatric Septic Shock in Community Hospitals Saves Lives

To determine whether early resuscitation and reversal of septic shock by community hospital physicians are associated with improved outcome in children, these authors reviewed cases of septic shock ...
Healio

Quality improvement program decreases septic shock mortality

A quality improvement initiative resulted in decreased mortality in pediatric septic shock patients without increasing ICU admissions or ED lengths of stay, according to study findings published in ...
Medscape

A History of Adjunctive Glucocorticoid Treatment for Pediatric Sepsis: Moving Beyond Steroid Pulp Fiction Toward Evidence-based Medicine

Although it seems prudent to provide stress-dose steroids to children with septic shock clinically at risk for stress adrenal insufficiency (chronic steroid use, recent steroid use, purpura fulminans, ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Sepsis and Septic Shock

The Sepsis-1, Sepsis-2, and Sepsis-3 definitions are for adult sepsis. The IPCC (International Pediatric Sepsis Consensus Conference) and Phoenix definitions are for pediatric sepsis. ARDS denotes ...
EurekAlert!

Researchers create model to predict children likely to go into septic shock

AURORA, Colo. (Nov. 13, 2019) - Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have developed a unique model allowing them to predict which children arriving in emergency ...