(n.) The poisoning of the system by the introduction of putrescent material into the blood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Histological studies showed that the resulting pancreatitis was usually mild to moderate, being severe only in association with sepsis.
(2) Sepsis resulted from intravenous absorption through inflamed or disrupted urothelium.
(3) We report a rare case of odontogenic abscess, detected while the patient was in the intensive care unit (ICU), which resulted in sepsis and the patient's death due to mediastinitis, skull osteomyelitis, and deep neck cellulitis.
(4) Fifty per cent of Group I patients died from sepsis and MOF.
(5) Inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) have been reported to increase mean arterial pressure in animal models of sepsis and recently have been given to patients in septic shock.
(6) Sepsis-induced pulmonary artery hypertension (SIPAH) causes an increase in right ventricular (RV) afterload, dilatation of the RV, leftward shift of the interventricular septum (IVS), and therefore decreases left ventricular compliance (LVC).
(7) The early death of PL mice is related to generalized debilitation from prolonged distal colonic obstruction resulting in a decrease in immunologic integrity and an increased susceptibility to sepsis.
(8) Antimicrobial effectiveness and effect on survival of single-dose vs. multiple-dose aminoglycoside antibiotic therapy (with and without steroid) for lethal sepsis were evaluated.
(9) Inhibiting growth of those bacteria which reach the wound, by means of perioperative antibiotics, further reduces the incidence of joint sepsis.
(10) The most common infections in these patients were pneumonia, septicemia, peritonitis and wound sepsis.
(11) Antimicrobiologic chemotherapy is a cornerstone in the modern concept of treatment of sepsis.
(12) The six patients who died of bacterial sepsis after transplantation all had pretransplant surgery.
(13) The efficacy rates were 100% in sepsis, 62.5% in suspected sepsis, 80% in pneumonia and 73% in all cases.
(14) 1)"Nomal secundinae" or "physiological leucocytosis at ruptured chorionic membranes": there are but a few cases (3 to 5%) of amniotic infection syndroms or morphological signs of an aspiration of infected amniotic fluid and fetal sepsis.
(15) Average increases in resting metabolic expenditure for a group of patients following elective operation, skeletal trauma, skeletal trauma with head injury, blunt trauma, sepsis and burns were determined by indirect calorimetry and protein need by urinary nitrogen losses over extended time periods.
(16) Four patients had sepsis and the median duration of hospitalization was 39 (22-58) days.
(17) Efforts to improve microcirculatory blood flow during sepsis may lead to more effective treatment or prevention of multiple systems organ failure.
(18) The E. coli patients had a significantly higher incidence of neurotoxicity, pancreatitis, and life-threatening sepsis (4%, 2%, and 20%, respectively) when compared with the Erwinia group (2%, 0%, and 18%).
(19) Generalized reticuloendothelial hyperplasia associated with heavy-chain disease is a poorly recognized complication associated with rheumatoid arthritis and may be mistaken for underlying sepsis in these patients.
(20) To prevent sudden infant deaths, all sick newborns should be treated for neonatal sepsis.
Septicity
Definition:
(n.) Tendency to putrefaction; septic quality.
Example Sentences:
(1) report the complications registered, in particular: lead's displacing 6.2%, run away 0.7%, marked hyperthermya 0.0%, haemorrage 0.4%, wound dehiscence 0.3%, asectic necrosis by decubitus 5%, septic necrosis 0.3%, perforation of the heart 0.2%, pulmonary embolism 0.1%.
(2) In cases without septic complications the level returned to normal within seven days, while the sedimentation rate only became normal after three months.
(3) Inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) have been reported to increase mean arterial pressure in animal models of sepsis and recently have been given to patients in septic shock.
(4) The median duration of treatment for the clinical cures in osteomyelitis and septic arthritis were 29.5 days and 46 days respectively.
(5) Myocardial depression is a major but poorly understood component of septic shock.
(6) A prospective study of one hundred children with septic arthritis showed that the knee and hip were the joints most affected and that Staphylococcus aureus and Haemophilus influenzae Type B were the commonest bacteria grown.
(7) In conclusion, a zipper technique has been outlined that allows effective continuing drainage of the septic abdomen, permits early diagnosis of organ damage, is rapid and cost effective, minimizes ventilator dependency and gastrointestinal complications, is well tolerated by the patients, and has produced a modest 65 per cent survival rate in the first 34 critically ill patients in whom it was used.
(8) Effects of lidocaine on organ localization of neutrophils and bacteria and on hemodynamic and metabolic variables were determined during septic shock in dogs.
(9) On the basis of the analysis of 69 outbreaks of hospital infections registered in the USSR in 1986-1989, as well as additional observations made by the authors, a number of factors which determined the present state of the problems concerning this kind of morbidity in the USSR were established: an insufficient level (in cases of enteric infections) or a low level (in cases of purulent septic infections) of etiological diagnosis; poor efficiency of the epidemiological investigation of outbreaks; defects in the work on the prophylactic detection of potential sources of infection among medical staff, parturient women or mothers taking care of their infants.
(10) Minor trauma preceded shortly the development of the septic process.
(11) More than three separate blood cultures per septic episode is rarely necessary.
(12) The findings are in agreement with our former assumption that patients with septic abortion have a pronounced state of hypercoagulability.
(13) Cachexia and septic shock, syndromes associated with chronic and acute infection, respectively, are mediated by endogenous factors.
(14) To evaluate dopamine's effectiveness on regional perfusion and survival, neonatal pigs were subjected to fecal Escherichia coli peritonitis-induced septic shock and were randomly divided into equal groups.
(15) Septic shock constitutes a great threat to patients undergoing major abdominal surgery and also to trauma patients.
(16) A case is described of a 55 years old woman with septic thrombosis of the inferior caval vein, detected in time with the aid of computed tomography and cavography.
(17) These data support the idea that mesenteric oxygen consumption is flow-limited in this clinically relevant porcine model of septic shock.
(18) To reduce the risks posed by the hazard, the report recommends that a management plan be created to determine the level of soil contamination and for managing excavated soil, and to decommission disused septic tanks to prevent the spread of contamination.
(19) On the other hand, septic shock and appropriate antibiotic therapy were the major prognostic factors.
(20) No significant difference in septic complications was found between patients receiving 24 hours and 60 hours of preoperative treatment (Table III).