Progress of epidemiology and outcome for sepsis

VernacularTitle:脓毒症流行病学及预后的研究进展
Author: Xiaoli HE ¹ ; Deyuan LI ; Lina QIAO ; Yan KANG
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1. 610041 四川成都,四川大学华西第二医院儿科,出生缺陷与相关妇儿疾病教育部重点实验室
Keywords: Sepsis; Mortality; Cognitive function; Quality of life
From: Chinese Critical Care Medicine 2018;30(5):486-489
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Sepsis is an uncontrolled host's response to infection and leads to life-threatening organ dysfunction. Traditional prognostic indicators for short-term mortality, such as intensive care unit (ICU) mortality, hospital mortality, cannot reveal the real and final outcome of sepsis patients. Sepsis patients remain high mortality even several years after hospital discharge, at the same time the quality of life, and the cognitive function were also damaged at varying degrees. Nowadays, studies about long-term quality of life for sepsis were still sparse and further study was still needed. This article aims to explore the epidemiology, short-term and long-term outcome so that it can provide some reference for assessment and intervention of long-term outcome of sepsis.