Management of Sepsis: The Piro Approach

by Alejandro Rodriguez, Emilio Diaz, Jordi Rello, et al.

Book Overview

Sepsis is a very important public health problem. It is widely acknowledged that the severe inflammatory response syndrome/severe sepsis paradigm fails to stratify sepsis patients adequately. This book reviews in detail how sepsis should be managed on the basis of a novel approach to staging. The PIRO (predisposing factors, infection, response, organ dysfunction) model was first proposed at the start of the decade on a theoretical basis and has...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642101488
• ISBN13: 9783642101489
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"