Description: Sepsis is a major cause of hospital death in the United States (US)1 and is associated with over 850,000 annual emergency department visits.2 Despite advances in care, patients with serious infection continue to have a high inpatient mortality rate, reaching 20% or more in some settings. This makes sepsis and septic shock one of the highest mortality conditions treated in the ED. Additionally, many survivors never fully recover, and instead, long-term morbidities, chronic critical illness, or post-intensive care syndrome develops in them.
Identifier: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2021.02.006
Section: Infectious disease/ACEP policy statement
Volume: 0
Author: Donald M. Yealy, Nicholas M. Mohr, Nathan I. Shapiro, Arjun Venkatesh, Alan E. Jones, Wesley H. Self
