UMEM Educational Pearls

Category: Critical Care

Title: Sepsis and Pneumonia

Keywords: pneumonia, sepsis, severe sepsis, septic shock, mrsa, vancomycin (PubMed Search)

Posted: 1/28/2009 by Mike Winters, MD (Updated: 4/1/2023)
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Pneumonia and Sepsis

As we have discussed, one of the most important components in the ED management of sepsis is the administration of early and appropriate broad-spectrum antibiotics
Pneumonia remains one of the most common causes of sepsis in the US and worldwide
Given the steady rise in incidence of MRSA, remember to add vancomycin to your empiric treatment of patients with pneumonia and severe sepsis or septic shock