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Does this patient have septic shock?

Authors: Chawika Pisitsak, Keith R. Walley

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 3/2017

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The diagnosis of septic shock is typically not straightforward since sepsis presents with an array of clinical features and very frequently occurs in the context of other disease states. Rapid diagnosis of septic shock requires both an approach to the differential diagnosis of shock and an approach to the diagnosis of sepsis. Interestingly, the clinical history is often the most specific clinical feature. …

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Title: Does this patient have septic shock?
Authors: Chawika Pisitsak
Keith R. Walley
Publication date: 01-03-2017
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 3/2017
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-015-4193-3

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