Comparative study of survivor and nonsurvivor sepsis patients in a university hospital Estudo comparativo de pacientes sobreviventes e não sobreviventes com sepse em um hospital universitário

• Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
• Main Authors: Aline Pâmela Vieira de Oliveira, Cristina Hueb Barata, Eddie Fernando Candido Murta, Beatriz Martins Tavares-Murta
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2008
• Subjects: Sepse; Prognóstico; Antimicrobianos; Fatores de risco; Sepsis; Prognosis; Antimicrobials; Risk factors; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Droga
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0037-86822008000100010; https://doaj.org/article/d594b811a3014ec68cbb9e110136dbda

To determine parameters associated with the evolution of sepsis, a five-year retrospective study was conducted in a university hospital. One hundred and four consecutive sepsis patients were evaluated, of whom 55.8% were men. The mortality was 68.3% and was associated with older age (p<0.05). Chr...