The Association Between Time From Emergency Department Visit to ICU Admission and Mortality in Patients With Sepsis.

ABSTRACT: The Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines 2021 recommends that adult patients with sepsis requiring intensive care should be admitted to the ICU within 6 hours of their emergency department (ED) visits. However, there is limited evidence on whether 6 hours is the best target time for compliance with the sepsis bundle. We aimed to investigate the association between time from ED visits to ICU admission (i.e., ED length of stay [ED-LOS]) and mortality and identify the optimal ED-LOS for patients with sepsis.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

The Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care Emergency Department and Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care IV databases.

Patients

Adult patients (≥ 18 yr old) who were transferred from the ED to the ICU and subseque

SUBMITTER: Shibata J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10171575 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature