How a patient with severe sepsis or septic shock responds to dobutamine infusion may help predict outcome, investigators say. Reuters Health Information
In a retrospective cohort study, hospitalist care was modestly less expensive than general internist care, but it provided no significant savings vs care provided by family physicians. Medscape Medical News
Surviving Sepsis Campaign in JAMA shows that education on guidelines improves patient outcomes. Approaches for catheter-related bloodstream infections are framed in clinical perspective by Dr. Shorr. Medscape Pulmonary Medicine
The use of intensive insulin therapy placed patients critically ill with sepsis at increased risk for serious adverse events related to hypoglycemia, and pentastarch was also harmful. Medscape Medical News
