Current Epidemiology of Surgical Sepsis: Discordance Between Inpatient Mortality and 1-year Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We sought to compare traditional inpatient outcomes to long-term functional outcomes and mortality of surgical intensive care unit (SICU) patients with sepsis.

Summary of background data

As inpatient sepsis mortality declines, an increasing number of initial sepsis survivors now progress into a state of chronic critical illness (CCI) and their post-discharge outcomes are unclear.

Methods

We performed a prospective, longitudinal cohort study of SICU patients with sepsis.

Results

Among this recent cohort of 301 septic SICU patients, 30-day mortality was 9.6%. Only 13 (4%) patients died within 14 days, primarily of refractory multiple organ failure (62%). The majority (n = 189, 63%) exhibited a rapid recovery (RAP), whereas 99 (33%) developed CCI. CCI pa

SUBMITTER: Brakenridge SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6942687 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature