Sepsis in the older person: the ravages of time and bacteria

Title: Sepsis in the older person: the ravages of time and bacteria
Creator: Burkett, Ellen; Macdonald, Stephen P.J.; Carpenter, Christopher R.; Arendts, Glenn; Hullick, Carolyn; Nagaraj, Guruprasad; Osborn, Tiffany M.
Relation: Emergency Medicine Australasia Vol. 30, Issue 2, p. 249-258
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1742-6723.12949
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2018
Description: Pearl is an 84 year old woman in your ED with a 2 day history of lethargy. She is usually cognitively intact and has a history of hypertension, congestive cardiac failure, mild renal impairment and Parkinson’s disease. She lives in an aged care facility and mobilises with a four‐wheeled walker. She has a temperature of 37.9°C and feels lethargic. She has neither other specific symptoms nor signs, although appears confused. Her blood pressure (BP) is 90 systolic and she has a pulse of 70/min. Does Pearl have septic shock? If so, what is the source and how should we manage her?
Subject: older people; diseases; septic shock; hypertension
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1421828
Identifier: uon:37771
Identifier: ISSN:1742-6731
Language: eng
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