Delays from first medical contact to antibiotic administration for sepsis

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 759-765

  Seymour, Christopher W ^a   Kahn, Jeremy M ^a   Martin Gill, Christian ^a   Callaway, Clifton W ^a   Yealy, Donald M ^a   Scales, Damon ^b   Angus, Derek C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antibiotic; Prehospital care; Sepsis; Timing

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PENNSYLVANIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; THERAPY DELAY; TIME; ADULT; AGE; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; TIME TO TREATMENT; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENNSYLVANIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TIME-TO-TREATMENT;

EID: 85013828874     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000002264     Document Type: Article

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