How best to manage sepsis patients, particularly during the critical first few hours of treatment

Survival of patients with septic shock was the same regardless of whether they received treatment based on specific protocols or the usual high-level standard of care, according to a five-year clinical study. The large-scale randomized trial, named ProCESS for Protocolized Care for Early Septic Shock, was done in 31 academic hospital emergency departments across the country and was funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), a component of the National Institutes of Health.The results of the trial, led by Derek C. Angus, M.D., M.P.H., and Donald M. Yealy, M.D.

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