The prognostic performance of the predisposition, infection, response and organ failure (PIRO) classification in high-risk and low-risk emergency department sepsis …

B de Groot, J Lameijer, ERJT de Deckere… - Emergency Medicine …, 2014 - emj.bmj.com
Objective To compare the prognostic performance of the predisposition, infection, response
and organ failure (PIRO) score with the traditional sepsis category and clinical judgement in …

Performance of illness severity scores to guide disposition of emergency department patients with severe sepsis or septic shock

B de Groot, ERJT de Deckere… - European Journal of …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Objective To determine the number of emergency department (ED) patients with severe
sepsis who are admitted to the ICU and to assess whether the predisposition, infection …

[HTML][HTML] Lack of clinically evident signs of organ failure affects ED treatment of patients with severe sepsis

D Kakebeeke, A Vis, ERJT de Deckere… - International journal of …, 2013 - Springer
Background It is not known whether lack of recognition of organ failure explains the low
compliance with the “Surviving Sepsis Campaign”(SSC) guidelines. We evaluated whether …

Impact of the diagnostic process on the accuracy of source identification and time to antibiotics in septic emergency department patients

AJM Uittenbogaard, ERJT de Deckere… - European Journal of …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Objective Timely administration of effective antibiotics is important in sepsis management.
Source-targeted antibiotics are believed to be most effective, but source identification could …