Sepsis (Competency-Based Critical Care) Sepsis is a serious medical condition, resulting from the immune response to a severe infection. Septicaemia is sepsis of the bloodstream caused by bactemeria, which is the presence of bacteria in the bloodstream.
By Jordi Rello, Emili Díaz, Alejandro Rodríguez Sepsis is a very important public health problem. It is widely acknowledged that the severe inflammatory response syndrome/severe sepsis paradigm fails to stratify sepsis patients adequately. This book reviews in detail how sepsis should be managed on the basis of a novel approach to staging.
Sepsis and Non-infectious Systemic Inflammation: From Biology to Critical Care By Jean-Marc Cavaillon, Christophe Adrie Providing definitions, clinical features and epidemiology, Sepsis and Non-infectious Systemic Inflammation adopts a comprehensive approach, describing in detail the various physiological systems involved.
