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Sepsis is an inflammatory process of increasing importance due to the changing patient population: patients are more often elderly, immunocompromised, and suffering from severe underlying diseases. The incidence of sepsis largely depends on the type of hospital and patient population and varies in a range from 4 to 21 episodes per 1000 admissions in European and North American university hospitals, according to an analysis of several studies in the 1970s and 1980s [1]. In spite of improved supportive care and a wide range of potent antimicrobials, sepsis may still be fatal in 20%–30% of cases. In the presence of septic shock which develops in 20%–40% of episodes, mortality rises to about 50% [2].
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Adam, D., Gerlach, B. (1994). Antibacterial Treatment of Sepsis. In: Reinhart, K., Eyrich, K., Sprung, C. (eds) Sepsis. Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85036-3_19
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