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ReviewCureus2024

Tools for Screening, Predicting, and Evaluating Sepsis and Septic Shock: A Comprehensive Review.

Kanishk Aggrawal, Sakshi Verma, Mason T Stoltzfus, Bhupinder Singh, Fnu Anamika, Rohit Jain

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Review in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Kanishk AggrawalInternal Medicine, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, IND.
Sakshi VermaInternal Medicine, Government Medical College, Amritsar, Amritsar, IND.
Mason T StoltzfusNeurosurgery, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, USA.
Bhupinder SinghInternal Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Queens Hospital Center, Queens, USA.
Fnu AnamikaMedical School, University College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, IND.
Rohit JainInternal Medicine, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sepsis is characterized by life-threatening organ dysfunction due to dysregulated host response to infection. It can progress to cause circulatory and cellular/metabolic abnormalities, resulting in septic shock that may significantly increase mortality. The pathophysiology of sepsis involves a complex interplay of invading pathogens and the body's immune defense, causing alteration in normal homeostasis, eventually leading to derangements in the cellular, humoral, circulatory, and metabolic functions. Several scoring systems have been developed to rapidly predict or suspect sepsis, such as Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), modified SOFA (mSOFA), quick SOFA (qSOFA), shock index (SI), and modified SI (mSI). Each of these scores has been utilized for triaging patients with sepsis, and as per medical advancements these scoring systems have been modified to include or exclude certain criteria to improve their clinical utility. This review aims to compare the individual scores and their usage for sepsis that may be used for laying the foundation for early recognition and prediction of sepsis and for formulating more precise definitions in the future.

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modified shock indexquick sequential organ failure assessment (qsofa)sepsisseptic shock (ss)sequential organ failure assessment (sofa)shock index

Identifiers

PMID39290917
PMCPMC11407798

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