- Title
- Sepsis in the older person: the ravages of time and bacteria
- Creator
- Burkett, Ellen; Macdonald, Stephen P.J.; Carpenter, Christopher R.; Arendts, Glenn; Hullick, Carolyn; Nagaraj, Guruprasad; Osborn, Tiffany M.
- Relation
- Emergency Medicine Australasia Vol. 30, Issue 2, p. 249-258
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1742-6723.12949
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Pearl is an 84 year old woman in your ED with a 2 day history of lethargy. She is usually cognitively intact and has a history of hypertension, congestive cardiac failure, mild renal impairment and Parkinson’s disease. She lives in an aged care facility and mobilises with a four‐wheeled walker. She has a temperature of 37.9°C and feels lethargic. She has neither other specific symptoms nor signs, although appears confused. Her blood pressure (BP) is 90 systolic and she has a pulse of 70/min. Does Pearl have septic shock? If so, what is the source and how should we manage her?
- Subject
- older people; diseases; septic shock; hypertension
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1421828
- Identifier
- uon:37771
- Identifier
- ISSN:1742-6731
- Language
- eng
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