ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2023
Ultrasound in Sepsis and Septic Shock-From Diagnosis to Treatment.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Point-of-care ultrasound in emergency department sepsis and septic shock: a pragmatic framework for source-oriented assessment and physiologic reassessment.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Review
- Carotid Doppler and IVC metrics for volume and mortality assessment in septic shock.The Libyan journal of medicine · 2025Observational
- Hemodynamic Patterns in Septic Cardiomyopathy: Insights From Echocardiographic Parameters and Biomarker Analysis.Cureus · 2025Article
- Emergency Ultrasound in the Context of Cardiac Arrest and Circulatory Shock: "How to Avoid Cardiac Arrest".Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Critical reflection on the indication for computed tomography: an interdisciplinary survey of risk and benefit management in patients with sepsis.Insights into imaging · 2025Article
- Septic shock in the prehospital setting: a scoping review.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2024Article
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- Levosimendan for sepsis-induced myocardial dysfunction: friend or foe?Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Review
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- Cyclovirobuxine D pretreatment ameliorates septic heart injury through mitigation of ferroptosis.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2023Article
- Point-of-Care Ultrasound: A Multimodal Tool for the Management of Sepsis in the Emergency Department.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Review
- Anchoring Bias: A Cautionary Tale of Point-of-Care Ultrasound and Cardiac Tamponade.Kansas journal of medicineArticle
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Abstract
Sepsis and septic shock are among the leading causes of in-hospital mortality worldwide, causing a considerable burden for healthcare. The early identification of sepsis as well as the individuation of the septic focus is pivotal, followed by the prompt initiation of antibiotic therapy, appropriate source control as well as adequate hemodynamic resuscitation. For years now, both emergency department (ED) doctors and intensivists have used ultrasound as an adjunctive tool for the correct diagnosis and treatment of these patients. Our aim was to better understand the state-of-the art role of ultrasound in the diagnosis and treatment of sepsis and septic shock.
methodsWe conducted an extensive literature search about the topic and reported on the data from the most significant papers over the last 20 years.
resultsWe divided each article by topic and exposed the results accordingly, identifying four main aspects: sepsis diagnosis, source control and procedure, fluid resuscitation and hemodynamic optimization, and echocardiography in septic cardiomyopathy.
conclusionThe use of ultrasound throughout the process of the diagnosis and treatment of sepsis and septic shock provides the clinician with an adjunctive tool to better characterize patients and ensure early, aggressive, as well as individualized therapy, when needed. More data are needed to conclude that the use of ultrasound might improve survival in this subset of patients.
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