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Purpose: Increasing incidence of sepsis is causing the burden of in-hospital morbidity and mortality. Therapy should be instituted within the first one to three hours of detection to avoid long-term… Click to show full abstract
Purpose: Increasing incidence of sepsis is causing the burden of in-hospital morbidity and mortality. Therapy should be instituted within the first one to three hours of detection to avoid long-term consequences. The Shock Tool is an automatic electronic surveillance program that monitors pediatric patients at Nemours Children’s Hospital in both Orlando, FL and Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE in real time. The purpose of this study was to explore the medical records of patients with elevated Shock Tool scores and suspected and documented sepsis to determine …
Journal Title: Pediatrics
Year Published: 2018
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