The significance of non-sustained hypotension in emergency department patients with sepsis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Few studies have documented the incidence and significance of non-sustained hypotension in emergency department (ED) patients with sepsis. We hypothesized that ED non-sustained hypotension increases risk of in-hospital mortality in patients with sepsis.

Methods

Secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study. ED patients aged > 17 years admitted to the hospital with explicitly defined sepsis were prospectively identified.

Inclusion criteria

Evidence of systemic inflammation (> 1 criteria) and suspicion for infection. Patients with overt shock were excluded. The primary outcome was in-hospital mortality.

Results

Seven hundred patients with sepsis were enrolled, including 150 (21%) with non-sustained hypotension. The primary outcome of in-hospital mort

SUBMITTER: Marchick MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2923927 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature