Impact of Source Control in Patients With Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock*

2016182 citationsJournal Article

Authors

María Luisa Martínez

Ricard Ferrer · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Eva Torrents

Raquel Guillamat‐Prats

Gemma Gomà

David L. Suarez · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Luis Álvarez-Rocha

Juan Carlos Pozo Laderas

Ignacio Martín‐Loeches · St. James's Hospital

Mitchell M. Levy

Abstract

Despite greater severity and worse compliance with resuscitation bundles, mortality was lower in septic patients who underwent source control than in those who did not. The time to source control could not be linked to survival in this observational database.

Topics & Keywords

Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders Nosocomial Infections in ICU

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: Critical Care Medicine

Volume 45, Issue 1, pp. 11-19

DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000002011

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