title: [Incidence of sepsis in the Czech Republic. Analysis of mortality in 1993].
abstract: Sepsis holds the second place on the list of deaths from infectious diseases. Epidemiological data on the morbidity from sepsis are inadequate. The basis of the submitted paper are data from the Czech Statistical Office on subjects who died of sepsis, death certificates and health records. The analysis of assembled data pertains to 85 subjects who died from sepsis in 1993 and is concerned with the age distribution of the deceased, the distribution by gender, type of hospital department, where death occurred, and the diagnosis made on admission. A group of 32 subjects who developed a septic focus during hospitalization (group of nosocomial sepses) was investigated further: 10 developed a decubital sepsis (31%), 3 a diabetic sepsis and 5 urosepsis. As to risk factors, in addition to ATB therapy the following dominated: repeated hospitalizations, the development of infectious decubiti, infusions and venous and urinary catheters. A haemoculture was examined in 9 (28%), 4 times Gram-positive cocci were detected, 5 times Gram-negative rods. Antibiotics were prescribed to two-thirds of the affected patients: gentamicin in 35%, ampicillin in 34%, PNC in 13%, cefotaxime in 12% of the affected subjects.
authors.affiliation: Státní zdravotní ústav, Praha.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Srámová
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D018153:Czech Republic / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018805:Sepsis / Q000401:mortality*
vernacular_title: Výskyt sepsí Ceské Republice. (Analýza úmrtí na sepsi v roce 1993).