Connecticut medicine
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Connecticut medicine · Feb 2015
Goal-Directed Therapy for Sepsis: Has the Beast Been Slain or Do Questions Remain?
The identification and early management of severe sepsis and septic shock has undergone a significant evolution over the past decade and a half. Recently two large multicentered trials were published contradicting the original Early-Goal Directed Therapy (EGDT) trial published in 2001. In this commentary we evaluate the current trials place in the historical context of negative and positive trial's on EGDT sepsis resuscitation.
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Connecticut medicine · Jan 2015
Reduction of Cardiac Arrests: The Experience of a Novel Service Centric Medical Emergency Team.
To determine whether a novel, service-centric, medical emergency team (MET) model can impact cardiac arrest (CA) rates. ⋯ A service-centric MET program was associated with a reduction in the rate of CAs both hospital wide and in the ICU. These observations maybe explained by the earlier intervention in care of unstable patients by an expanded group of caregivers.