Across
- 3. Systemic response to infection
- 5. An important lab used as a marker to diagnosis sepsis and septic shock as well as the response to fluid resuscitation
- 9. Cardiovascular dysfunction is evidenced by _______ despite adequate volume resuscitation and may require vasopressor therapy
- 11. This lung sound can be auscultated as increased pulmonary capillary membrane permeability leads to pulmonary edema
- 14. Gram ________ bacteria are responsible for more than half of the cases of sepsis
- 15. Antibiotics therapy should be started within ____ hour of recognition
Down
- 1. Presence of viable bacteria in the blood
- 2. Systemic inflammatory response to a variety of severe clinical insults
- 4. Microbial phenomenon characterized by an inflammatory response to the presence of microorganisms or the invasion of normally sterile host tissue by those organisms
- 6. Draw two bottles prior to initiation of broad spectrum antibiotics
- 7. The patient may appear disoriented, confused, combative or lethargic due to decreased cerebral perfusion
- 8. Blood begins to clot in vessels due to hypotension
- 10. infections in health care facilities
- 12. Hand ________ along with a clean environment help
- 13. Altered organ function in an acutely ill patient such that homeostasis cannot be maintained without intervention