Anaesthesia and surgery in sepsis.
Administration of anaesthesia to patients with sepsis and its effects on the progression of infection in the postoperative period is an important consideration both for surgeons and anaesthetists. All cases of abdominal sepsis carry a surgical mortality of around 50%. Though appropriate therapy is virtually always surgical, limiting initial surgical stress to simple closure and irrigation, supplemented with a proper anaesthetic regime, nutritional care and antibiotic cover, can improve the outcome.
Oberoi
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Goroka Base Hospital, Papua New Guinea.
D000758:Anesthesia; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010219:Papua New Guinea; D000292:Pelvic Inflammatory Disease / Q000150:complications; D011184:Postoperative Period; D011292:Premedication; D018805:Sepsis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*