Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2016
Abstract
The article discusses new definitions for sepsis and septic shock called Sepsis-3. The definitions are put in the historical and factual context of the 1992 definition and their extended 2003 version.
Also mentioned are potential impacts on clinical practice, with it-being clear that the new definition shifts the sepsis issues more to intensive care as it emphasizes organ failure. In pre-hospital care, emergency departments and general wards of hospitals where patients are triaged, a new scoring system, the so-called quick SOFA, may be used.
In this approach, stress is placed on impaired consciousness, a drop in systolic pressure and tachypnea but its role in more precise identification is yet to be verified in common clinical practice.