What is Sepsis?

SEPSIS INFORMATION FORM

What is sepsis?

Sepsis is a microbe in the blood, body fluids or tissues of the body, illness and injury is the result of proliferation. Bacterial sepsis, viral and fungal species can develop different microbes. Multiple organ germs spread through blood or neighborhood impairs normal functions of organs, the disease is not treated timely and properly shock and death. In childhood, particularly low birth weight or prematurely born infants, those being treated in hospital for a long time, weaken the immune system is easier to develop sepsis, a disease in infants and children.

What are the factors and transmission routes?

Germs that can cause sepsis patients cough or sneeze of a human being emitted into the air with droplets containing the bacteria entered the respiratory tract of healthy people, non-food to eat clean or dirty water içilmesiyle, dirty hands or through contaminated blood. Germs enter the body through the skin integrity impaired. Some diagnostic and therapeutic procedures (intravenous catheter insertion, use of breathing apparatus, such as intravenous nutrition) also predispose to sepsis.

What are the symptoms of the disease?

The symptoms of sepsis can vary according to age of the patient and the affected organs. Young infants with fever, low body temperature, well poor sucking, irritability, lethargy, convulsions (to have a fit), respiratory distress, moaning, jaundice, abdominal distension and growth of liver and spleen, vomiting, shock and bleeding may occur. Similar to the older children, heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, symptoms associated with impaired brain function, electrolyte balance, and hormone disruption, bleeding may occur. The patient's blood pressure drops, shock and coma develop in a table.

Sepsis is diagnosed?

Requires immediate diagnosis and treatment of sepsis. Blood, cerebrospinal fluid, urine, body fluids, such as the production of germ koydurabilir definite diagnosis of sepsis. However, microbes are often produced in the blood and other body fluids. In these cases, blood tests showing the germs in the body and the body sprung indirectly indicating the severity of infection, blood tests can be helpful in part. However, these studies support the presence of infection and sepsis can not show the type of microbe. X-rays, ultrasound, computed tomography examinations, such as it tries to determine the focus of infection.

What is the treatment?

Just need hospital care of patients with suspected sepsis. Antibiotics against microbes that have the potential to cause disease or other antimicrobial drugs, treatment should be initiated immediately. The patient's fluid and electrolyte needs are met, according to the state of consciousness to continue the feeding of determining the appropriate method of nutrition, respiration of oxygen, or respiratory device should be connected if it is not enough. Early detection and empowering state of shock the heart when necessary use of drugs is very important. Anticonvulsants must be treated for convulsions. If you have bleeding or bleeding tendency to stop the bleeding patient or diminishing substances in the blood to replace blood and blood products should be used.

How the disease may result?

Etiologic agents of sepsis and the patient's immune system is a very serious disease, depending on whether the normal watch. When the probability of death in two to five the number of normal body can not make the task of P to 0 come.

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