World Sepsis Day 2016: The News In Diagnostics Of Sepsis And Septic Shock By The Third International Consensus Definitions For Sepsis And Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

Volume 26, Number 6 (2016)

Dalia Adukauskienė, Jovita Stankūnaitė, Sandra Navickaitė Abstract The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis – 3) newly reviewed the aspects of sepsis as a polymorphous and clinically specific syndrome caused by infection and presented new diagnostic criteria for sepsis and septic shock. According to these criteria changes in definitions were also…

Clinical Case: Sepsis-Induced Cardiac Dysfunction

Volume 26, Number 5 (2016)

Tomas Janušonis, Renata Paškevičiūtė Abstract One of the serious sepsis complications is a reversible cardiac dysfunction. We present a case report about 31 years old female patient with sepsis following abortion. Diagnosis of cardiac dysfunction was based on echocardiography data (decreased left ventricle ejection fraction, systolic and diastolic dysfunction of the left ventricle) and laboratory…