title: [Lausanne Cohort of septic patients as an opportunity to develop multidisciplinary research within the Swiss Latin Network of Intensive Care Medicine].
abstract: Despite recent medical progresses in patient support, the mortality of sepsis remains high. Recently, new supporting strategies were proposed to improve outcome. Whereas such strategies are currently considered as standard of care, their real impact on mortality, morbidity, length of stay, and hence, health care resources utilization has been only weakly evaluated so far. Obviously, there is a critical need for epidemiologic surveys of sepsis to better address these major issues. The Lausanne Cohort of septic patients aims at building a large clinical, biological and microbiological database that will be used as a multidisciplinary research platform to study the various pathogenic mechanisms of sepsis in collaboration with the various specialists. This could be an opportunity to strengthen the collaboration within the Swiss Latin network of Intensive Care Medicine.
authors.affiliation: Service de médecine intensive adulte et Centre des brûlés, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne. Yok-ai.que@chuv.ch
authors.forename: Y A
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Que
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Eggimann
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liaudet
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chioléro
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003422:Critical Care / Q000639:trends; D019992:Databases as Topic; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D010865:Pilot Projects; D018805:Sepsis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D012772:Shock, Septic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D013557:Switzerland; D018746:Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy