Clinics and Therapy
Vol. 4 No. 4 (2008)
https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2008.4.14

Systemic inflammatory response syndrome: a case of septic shock

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Received: 17 February 2013
Published: 10 September 2008
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Nicolò Gentiloni Silveri
lucia.zoppi@pagepress.org
Unità Operativa Complessa di Pronto Soccorso e Medicina d’Urgenza, Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli, Roma, .
Luigi Carbone
Unità Operativa Complessa di Pronto Soccorso e Medicina d’Urgenza, Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli, Roma, .
An elderly, diabetic male, with severe sepsis, swiftly treated with antibiotics that were efficacious in vitro against the E. Coli isolated in his blood, rapidly slides into multiple organ dysfunction syndrome and dies of septic shock after a month in intensive care, despite receiving appropriate pain relief and aetiopathogenetic therapy. This event provides us with the opportunity to take a new look at systemic inflammatory response syndrome and a critical review of the relative therapy

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Nicolò Gentiloni Silveri, Unità Operativa Complessa di Pronto Soccorso e Medicina d’Urgenza, Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli, Roma
Luigi Carbone, Unità Operativa Complessa di Pronto Soccorso e Medicina d’Urgenza, Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli, Roma

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Systemic inflammatory response syndrome: a case of septic shock. (2008). Emergency Care Journal, 4(4), 14-22. https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2008.4.14

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