critical care medicine
Sepsis and Septic Shock
Prognosis for Sepsis and Septic Shock
Overall mortality in patients with septic shock is decreasing and now averages 30 to 40% (range 10 to 90%, depending on patient characteristics). Poor outcomes often follow failure to institute early aggressive therapy (eg, within 6 hours of suspected diagnosis). Once severe Lactic Acidosis with decompensated 