Epidemiology and Outcome of Sepsis in Adults and Children in a Rural, Sub-Sahara African Setting.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To identify the epidemiology and outcome of adults and children with and without sepsis in a rural sub-Sahara African setting.

Design

A priori planned substudy of a prospective, before-and-after trial.

Setting

Rural, sub-Sahara African hospital.

Patients

One-thousand four-hundred twelve patients (adults, n = 491; children, n = 921) who were admitted to hospital because of an acute infection.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Demographic, clinical, laboratory data, danger signs, and the presence of sepsis (defined as a quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score count ≥ 2) at admission were extracted. Sepsis was observed in 69 adults (14.1%) and 248 children (26.9%). Sepsis patients differed from subject

SUBMITTER: Kwizera A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8687731 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature