Sepsis

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School essay

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3 pages

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.doc

Published date :

06/02/2008

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Table of Contents Sepsis Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction/ Background to the problem.
  2. Pathophysiology.
  3. Clinical Presentation and Usual Course.
  4. Guideline Based Standards of Care.
  5. Nursing Interventions.
  6. Clinical outcomes.

Abstract

sepsis is described as a syndrome which is characterized by a general, systemic inflammation as a reaction of the body to infection or systemic inflammatory response syndrome, that is, cases where sepsis was also be observed to develop even in the absence of bacterial, viral, fungal or parasitic infection. It is a serious and deadly condition which usually results from a compounded infection problem which may result from another disease, trauma, hemorrhagic shock, old age or a compromised immune system (Bone et al., 1992). Hunter (2006) explains that the reason why sepsis is rarely given attention and popularized for public information and attention is because it is not a disease in itself but a reaction of the body to a lowered immunological response. Nevertheless, it is a major cause of fatalities around the globe, with a predicted value of around 18 million individuals infected annually. In addition, reported cases provide an underestimation of the statistics in some countries where some cases are not diagnosed.

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