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Ventricular Dysfunction during Sepsis

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Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

Part of the book series: Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine ((YEARBOOK,volume 1995))

Abstract

Sepsis occurs in about 1% of all hospitalized patients [1] and frequently complicates other treatable conditions from which the patients could otherwise recover. The incidence of sepsis is approximately 1500 cases per million population per year [2]. The average length of stay in hospital for patients with sepsis is 18 days [3]. In 40% of these patients sepsis is complicated by cardiovascular dysfunction leading to septic shock [4, 5]. Mortality rates rise from 20 to 30% in sepsis [4, 6] to approximately 40 to 70% in septic shock [4, 7]. This high mortality rate has not changed substantially over the past 20 years [6]. These data suggest that the human and financial burden of treating patients with sepsis is very high and that cardiovascular dysfunction during sepsis doubles the magnitude of the problem.

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  1. Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Route de Lennik 808, B-1070, Brussels, Belgium

    Jean-Louis Vincent (Clinical Director) (Clinical Director)

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Walley, K.R. (1995). Ventricular Dysfunction during Sepsis. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 1995. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79154-3_42

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