Open AccessSystemic inflammatory response syndrome: a case of septic shock
Author(s) -
Nicolò Gentiloni Silveri,
Luigi Carbone
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
emergency care journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2282-2054
pISSN - 1826-9826
DOI - 10.4081/ecj.2008.4.14
Subject(s) - medicine , septic shock , systemic inflammatory response syndrome , sepsis , shock (circulatory) , intensive care medicine , antibiotics , organ dysfunction , inflammatory response , severe sepsis , multiple organ dysfunction syndrome , inflammation , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
An elderly, diabetic male, with severe sepsis, swiftly treated with antibiotics that were efficacious in vitro against the E. Coli isolated in his blood, rapidly slides into multiple organ dysfunction syndrome and dies of septic shock after a month in intensive care, despite receiving appropriate pain relief and aetiopathogenetic therapy. This event provides us with the opportunity to take a new look at systemic inflammatory response syndrome and a critical review of the relative therap