Presentation of the septic patient to the emergency department with respect to age and sex - a retrospective cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

It is challenging to identify sepsis in the emergency department, in part due to the non-specific presentation of septic patients. Current clinical sepsis screening tools rely on vital signs but many patients present with near normal vital signs and are therefore not identified as septic. This suggests that variables, e.g. signs and symptoms, need to be included to improve sepsis detection in the emergency department. Our hypothesis was that the presentation of sepsis differs based age and sex. The potential differences in presentation could be used to apply to future sepsis screening tools. The aim was to analyze the prevalence of keywords reflecting the presentation of septic patients in the emergency department in relation to age and sex.

Method

Retrospective cr

SUBMITTER: Larsson EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9749171 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature