Ming-Shun Hsieh, Kuan-Chih Chiu, Amrita Chattopadhyay, Tzu-Pin Lu, Shu-Hui Liao, Chia-Ming Chang, Yi-Chen Lee, Wei-En Lo, Vivian Chia-Rong Hsieh, Sung-Yuan Hu, Chorng-Kuang How
BACKGROUND: Most sepsis patients could potentially experience advantageous outcomes from targeted medical intervention, such as fluid resuscitation, antibiotic administration, respiratory support, and nursing care, promptly upon arrival at the emergency department (ED). Several scoring systems have been devised to predict hospital outcomes in sepsis patients, including the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score. In contrast to prior research, our study introduces the novel approach of utilizing the National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) as a means of assessing treatment efficacy and disease progression during an ED stay for sepsis...
March 15, 2024: International Journal of Emergency Medicine