Some thoughts on treating sepsis with integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine
10.3760/cma.j.cn431274-20220214-00092
- VernacularTitle:中西医结合临床治疗脓毒症的一点思考
- Author:
Yi LIU
1
;
Caijun WU
;
Chunsheng LI
Author Information
1. 北京中医药大学东直门医院急诊科，北京 100700
- Keywords:
Sepsis;
Integrated TCM & WM;
Concept of wholism
- From:
Journal of Chinese Physician
2022;24(4):481-485
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Sepsis is a hot and difficult research topic in the field of acute and critical care all over the world. Sepsis mortality remains high despite ongoing guideline updates. This situation has prompted the research thinking of Western medicine to change from one-sided pursuit of killing pathogenic microorganisms to regulating the body′s immune response, and change from focusing on local pathological changes to focusing on the internal connection of systemic organs. They put forward theories such as liver-renal syndrome, cardio-renal syndrome, and lung-gut axis, which are consistent with the overall concept of traditional Chinese medicine. The research fields, goals, and treatment objects of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine are the same, so Integrative traditional Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of sepsis has important application value and broad development space. In the process of sepsis treatment, we must make full use of modern technology, and at the same time give full play to the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine, to reduce the fatality rate. Only in this way can we contribute to the protection of human health.
