Sepsis and multiple organ dysfunction

Question 1

What is septicemia?

Answer 1

presence of bacteria in the blood

Question 2

What is Sepsis?

Answer 2

a syndrome characterized by an overwhelming stemic response to infection.

Question 3

What SIRS?

Answer 3

the clinical response to a non - specific insult of infections or non infectious orgin

Question 4

What stage of SIRS is this… ?

inciting an inflamitory response

Answer 4

Stage 1

Question 5

What stage of SIRS is this……..?

Improve the local response

Answer 5

Stage 2

Question 6

What stage of SIRS is this?

Leads to destruction rather than protection

Answer 6

Stage 3

Question 7

What is it called when Sepsis leads to insulin resistance hyperglycemia?

Answer 7

“Diabete of stress”

Question 8

What is the definition for severe sepsis?

Answer 8

Sepsis with one or more signs of organ dysfunction.

Question 9

What is MODS?

Answer 9

Multisystem Organ Dysfunction

it is a progressive and potentially reversible physiological dysfunction involoving 2 or more organ systems