Sepsis News

• HMSepsis Alerts, Better Sleep, Handoffs Top Hospital Meeting Hospitalists will hear about the impact of the specialty and new challenges emerging at the Society of Hospital Medicine 2018 Meeting.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2018
• Should Dr Bawa-Garba Have Been Convicted? The UK physician's conviction has sparked outrage from medical community and raises concerns over exceptional pressures faced by NHS staff.
  Medscape Reader Polls, February 2018
• Little Evidence for Government-Mandated Sepsis Measure To meet the government-mandated bar of SEP-1, physicians have to perform up to 141 tasks and 5 interventions for a single patient. A study finds the evidence used to impose such a burden lacks rigor.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2018
• ID Docs Best Poised to Lead Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs The eclectic expertise of infectious disease specialists uniquely qualifies them to lead antimicrobial stewardship programs, according to a joint statement from several medical societies.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2018
• Prescription Opioids Increase Risk for Serious Infections Use of prescription opioids, particularly long-acting formulations or high doses, appears to substantially increase the risk of developing invasive pneumococcal disease.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2018
• Raised Troponins at Sepsis May Predict Mortality, New CV Disease Elevated hs-troponin is common during sepsis in the ICU and may predict greater risk for death over 2 weeks. Learning the mechanism of myocardial damage might point to possible treatments.
  Medscape Medical News, February 2018
• CSF Reference Values Help Detect Meningitis in Infants Up to 2 Months Old
  Reuters Health Information, February 2018
• Steroids Speed Recovery From Septic Shock; No Survival Benefit A hydrocortisone infusion does not reduce mortality among septic shock patients undergoing mechanical ventilation, but it does speed recovery when the condition is not fatal, according to an international study of 3,658 patients treated over four years.
  Reuters Health Information, January 2018
• Urinalysis Accurately Pinpoints UTI in Febrile Infants Urinalysis is highly sensitive and specific in diagnosing urinary-tract infection (UTI) in febrile infants, according to findings from a large study.
  Reuters Health Information, January 2018
• Alert PRAC Wants HES Infusion Solutions Off the Market in Europe The European Medicines Agency's committee says restrictions on HES infusion solutions introduced in 2013 to protect patients have not been sufficiently effective.
  News Alerts, January 2018
• Medicare Penalizes Group of 751 Hospitals for Patient Injuries The federal government Thursday lowered a year’s worth of Medicare payments to 751 hospitals to penalize them for having the highest rates of patient injuries.
  Kaiser Health News, December 2017
• Adjunctive Rifampin Not Beneficial for Staph aureus Bacteremia Adjunctive rifampin, also called rifampicin, provides no significant benefit over standard antibiotic therapy in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia, according to results from the ARREST trial.
  Reuters Health Information, December 2017
• FDA Clears Angiotensin II (Giapreza) for Septic Shock In clinical trials, Giapreza effectively increased blood pressure when added to conventional treatments used to raise blood pressure, the FDA said.
  FDA Approvals, December 2017
• Sepsis Early Warning Score Adopted in UK Every NHS hospital trust in England will be asked to adopt a new clinical system for assessing acutely ill patients.
  WebMD Health News, December 2017
• Prolonged Beta-lactam Infusion Better for Patients With Sepsis Mortality in patients with sepsis is lower for those who receive prolonged intravenous infusions of antipseudomonal beta-lactams than for those who receive short-term infusions, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials.
  Reuters Health Information, December 2017
• Landmark Trials Deliver Evidence to Rethink Saline Use The results could transform the way fluids are administered to some 5 million patients in an effort to lower the risk for renal dysfunction and death.
  Medscape Medical News, November 2017
• Despite New Data, Author Says Delaying Cord Clamping May Help Preterm Infants Timing, they say, is everything, and that may be true for the question of whether the umbilical cords of premature newborns should be clamped immediately or after a 60-second delay.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2017
• Statins May Help Guard Against S aureus Bacteremia A large Danish study finds a lower risk of community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in statin users, suggesting another pleiotropic effect of the cholesterol-lowering drugs.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2017
• Not All Streptococcal Bacteremia Cases Merit Echocardiography A simple score can help to determine which patients with non-beta-hemolytic streptococcal bacteremia require echocardiography to rule out infective endocarditis, researchers from Sweden report.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2017
• No Strong Benefit of Long-term Anticoagulation in Secondary AF A preliminary study suggests little benefit on stroke reduction and a suggestion of increased bleeding from long-term anticoagulation in transient AF secondary to ACS, sepsis, or lung disease.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2017