Critical care medicine
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Critical care medicine · Jul 2012
Randomized Controlled TrialRandomized trial of automated, electronic monitoring to facilitate early detection of sepsis in the intensive care unit*.
To determine whether automated identification with physician notification of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome in medical intensive care unit patients expedites early administration of new antibiotics or improvement of other patient outcomes in patients with sepsis. ⋯ Realtime alerts of modified systemic inflammatory response syndrome criteria to physicians in one tertiary care medical intensive care unit were feasible and safe but did not influence measured therapeutic interventions for sepsis or significantly alter clinical outcomes.