Shock

With earlier receipt of antibiotics for sepsis, those with vs. without metastatic cancer or shock had larger reductions in 30-day mortality, according to results published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

HONOLULU — The risk for all-cause mortality was reduced among patients with community-acquired pneumonia who used hydrocortisone vs. other corticosteroids, according to a poster presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

Hospitalized patients with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children — or MIS-C —are far more likely to experience shock than those hospitalized with Kawasaki disease, according to a study.

Adults with obesity who died of COVID-19 in Italy were more likely to experience nonrespiratory complications such as acute renal failure and shock than those without obesity, with higher odds for those younger than 60 years, according to study data.

A previously healthy, unvaccinated 17-year-old male presents with a progressive illness that began on a Monday with fatigue and loss of appetite.

The second annual SCAI SHOCK meeting, organized by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, aims to offer information to help clinicians better diagnose and treat cardiogenic shock, and to promote the establishment of institutional and regional shock teams for better care, according to its program co-chair.