Management of Sepsis: The PIRO Approach

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rello, Jordi (Editor), Díaz, Emili (Editor), Rodríguez, Alejandro (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Critical care medicine.; Internal medicine.; Infectious diseases.; Respiratory organs > Diseases.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Infectious Diseases.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.; Internal Medicine.

Sepsis is a very important public health problem. It is widely acknowledged that the severe inflammatory response syndrome/severe sepsis paradigm fails to stratify sepsis patients adequately. This book reviews in detail how sepsis should be managed on the basis of a novel approach to staging. The PI...

Table of Contents:

• PIRO: The Key to Success?
• Risk Stratification in Server Sepsis: Organ Failure scores or PIRO?
• Community-Acquired Pneumonia Management Based on the PIRO System. A New Therapeutic Paradigm
• Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia PIRO Score
• A PIRO-Based Approach for Severity Assessment in Community-Acquired Pneumonia
• Real-Time PCR in Microbiology: From Diagnosis to Characterization
• Influence of Serotype in Pneumococcal Disease: A New Challenge for Vaccination
• Acute Kidney Injury and Extracorporeal Blood Purification in Sepsis
• Immunoglobulin, Sepsis, and Pneumonia
• Coagulation Disorders in Sepsis
• Antibiotics in Severe Sepsis: Which Combinations Work?.