Sepsis and Septic Shock

Sepsis is one of the oldest and most elusive syndromes in medicine. In 2001, an international consensus panel defined sepsis as a systemic inflammatory response to infection. Instead, the panel proposed the term "severe sepsis" to describe instances in which sepsis is complicated by acute organ dysfunction, and they codified "septic shock" as sepsis complicated by either hypotension that is refractory to fluid resuscitation or by hyperlactatemia. In the United States, severe sepsis is recorded in 2% of patients admitted to the hospital. Of these patients, half are treated in the intensive care unit (ICU), representing 10% of all ICU admissions. The book will review: Initial Approach to the Patient in Septic Shock, New Therapies, Fluid Resuscitation, Monitoring Strategies, Sedation for Delirium in the ICU, Nutrition in the Acute Phase of Critical Illness.

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Abschluss an der medizinischen Fakultät der Ain Shams Universität im Dezember 1984, Master-Abschluss in Anästhesie und Intensivmedizin im November 1988, Promotion in Anästhesie und Intensivmedizin im April 1995, Professor für Anästhesie und Intensivmedizin an der Ain Shams Universität seit August 2005, Ärztlicher Direktor der Intensivstation des EL-Nozha Internationales Krankenhaus & ICU Ain Shams Universitätsklinikum.