The use of diagnostic tests at the point of patient care, known as "point-of-care" tests or POCT, consists of making determinations from clinical samples, always under the premise that the results are available within a period of time. immediately and what...
Recently, the “Third international consensus document for the definition of sepsis and septic shock” has been published. The authors define sepsis as life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by an exaggerated host response to infection. With the...
EVENT (Barcelona): Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2016. Time: 14:30 p.m. - 18:30 p.m. Place: Hotel Barceló Sants. Plaça dels Països Catalans, s/n. 08014 BarcelonaSponsor: Thermo Fisher Scientific The conference is endorsed by the Catalan Association of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, the Catalan Society of...
Sepsis Academy begins its journey with a free course that is developed within the framework of the agreement signed between the Foundation for the Progress of Education and Health, FPES, and Thermo Fisher Scientific. This platform, which is part of the Think about SEPSIS initiative,...
EVENT (Palma de Mallorca): Date: May 5 to 7, 2016Place: Hotel Meliá Palas Atenea. Paseo Marítimo Gabriel Roca, 29. Palma de Mallorca See program...
Sepsis is the body's response to an infection that can compromise the patient's life. Hospital admissions due to sepsis have doubled in the last 10 years and it is considered one of the leading causes of death worldwide. The...
EVENT (Valladolid): Date: April 7 and 8, 2016Place: López Prieto Amphitheater. School of Medicine. Valladolid See program...
This is demonstrated by a study coordinated by the Joan XXIII Hospital in Tarragona, in which 972 patients from 148 Spanish hospitals participated. The article has just been published in the Journal of Infection and the news in the media can be consulted from this link....
Lately we have been able to observe an increase in awareness among professionals of the importance of carrying out correct hand washing and respecting adequate prophylaxis in the management of hospital patients. On the Internet they appear in many initiatives, some inspired...
In order to offer the entire Thinking about Sepsis community the most up-to-date information, we have renewed the structure of the website www.sepsis-one.org. Access and navigation have been simplified, maintaining the differentiated content structure between patients and their environment...