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JC: Are we getting cosy on the septic SOFA? St.Emlyn’s

  Identifying, treating and prognosticating patients who attend the Emergency Department with infective symptoms, is part of the bread and butter of an emergency physician’s practice. It’s important that we identify patients that will develop or are at risk of developing septic shock accurately and swiftly.  In the UK mortality from severe sepsis is 18.2-21%1.

Compare this to the widely accepted…