Sepsis

A model featuring 13 potential predictors of acute respiratory distress syndrome was found to have “good predictive ability” in patients with sepsis, according to study results published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine.

Sepsis survivors from ICU and non-ICU settings treated with rehabilitation within 6 months had greater survival rates within 3 years following hospitalization, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Effect of restrictive vs. liberal fluid strategy on 90-day hospital mortality in sepsis-induced hypotension.

Azithromycin administered to women in labor during planned vaginal delivery reduced their risks for sepsis and death, but not their newborns’ risks for sepsis and death, according to findings presented at The Pregnancy Meeting.

Among patients with solid tumors, septic shock was associated with a 69.4% 28-day mortality rate, according to a study published in CHEST.

Among patients with sepsis-induced hypotension, a restrictive fluid strategy was not associated with mortality risk before discharge home by day 90 compared with a liberal fluid strategy, researchers reported.

Adults who survive a hospitalization with sepsis are at substantially increased risk for post-discharge death and CV events resulting in hospitalization, researchers reported.

A greater proportion of patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and sepsis were older, Black and experienced more sepsis episodes compared with patients with sepsis and a different type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, according to a study.

WASHINGTON — Neonates with sepsis were exposed to more antibiotics throughout their NICU admissions than controls and were found to have microbiome dysbiosis, researchers reported.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In this Healio exclusive interview, Daniel M. Burgin, MD, discussed his retrospective analysis presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting regarding an electronic health record-integrated sepsis model.