Articles: sepsis.
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Internal medicine journal · Nov 2023
Pneumococcal Bacteraemia in Adults over a 10-year period (2011 - 2020): A Clinical and Serotype Analysis.
Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) is a human nasopharyngeal tract coloniser responsible for invasive pneumococcal disease, which is largely vaccine preventable. Vaccination is recommended from birth for all, and through adulthood for those with risk conditions. ⋯ Most patients with pneumococcal bacteraemia had age- or comorbidity-related risk factors but were not vaccinated. Two-thirds of cases occurred in people aged <70 years. 13vPCV and 23vPPV covered 41.7% and 69.0% of bacteraemic isolates.
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Acta clinica Croatica · Nov 2023
GLUCOSE AND SODIUM LEVELS AS DISEASE OUTCOME PREDICTORS IN CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS.
The main aim of this study was to examine the association of glucose and sodium level with diagnosis and disease outcome of critically ill patients. Glucose and sodium concentrations of 283 patients admitted in critical condition to the Intensive Care Unit of the Department of Internal Medicine in a period from November 1, 2015 to February 28, 2017 were reviewed. The most common diagnoses in critically ill patients were acute kidney injury (26.1%) and sepsis (including septic shock, 22.3%). ⋯ Study results showed significantly lower glucose concentrations in patients with acute kidney injury, whereas in patients older than 65, glucose concentration was significantly higher. Patients in sepsis and septic shock had significantly higher sodium concentrations. Higher concentration of glucose was connected with higher mortality in the elderly, whereas sodium concentration did not show connection with mortality.