Lu Wang, Xudong Ma, Yehan Qiu, Yujie Chen, Sifa Gao, Huaiwu He, Longxiang Su, Shabai Dai, Yanhong Guo, Wenhu Wang, Guangliang Shan, Yaoda Hu, Dawei Liu, Zhi Yin, Chang Yin, Xiang Zhou
BACKGROUND: Hospitals with higher septic shock case volume demonstrated lower hospital mortality. We conducted this study to investigate whether this phenomenon was only caused by the increase in the number of admissions or the need to improve the medical care capacity in septic shock at the same time. METHODS: Seven-hundred and eighty-seven hospitals from China collected in a survey from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021. Medical care capacity for septic shock was explored by patients with septic shock in intensive care units (ICU) divided into beds, intensivists, and nurses respectively...
March 7, 2024: Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Medicine