Dr. Finn E. Nielsen, a senior scientist in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark, told the European Emergency Medicine Congress today Tuesday that he and his colleagues examined deaths over a long follow-up period in a prospective study of 714 adult patients admitted to the emergency department with sepsis. Their findings revealed several risk factors associated with sepsis-related deaths

In a report in 2020, the World Health Organization WHO highlighted limitations and gaps in knowledge about sepsis outcomes, with existing studies having a mixture of designs, differences in data sources, and different definitions of sepsis, all of which produced considerable variations in estimates of incidence and deaths from the condition. The WHO called for prospective studies to investigate long-term outcomes for sepsis patients.

Dr. Nielsen, who is a specialist in emergency medicine, cardiology and internal medicine, established the sepsis research group in his emergency department in 2017. The current study examined outcomes among patients admitted with sepsis between October 2017 and the end of March 2018.

Our study relied on a sepsis database, which provided valuable information based on prospectively collected patient data. Unlike frequently used routine registry data, this approach minimised errors, and allowed for more accurate and detailed insights into sepsis effects.

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