Erschienen in:
01.02.2014 | Editorial
Prognostic factors for mortality in (fecal) peritonitis: back to the roots!
verfasst von:
Christian Eckmann, Matteo Bassetti
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 2/2014
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Excerpt
We have just a few reliable data about prognosis in abdominal sepsis in general and fecal peritonitis in particular. This alone is a good reason why the study by Tridente et al. [
1] published in this issue of
Intensive Care Medicine is an important contribution to this topic. The authors present a large cohort of patients treated in different European health-care settings and the study provides some of the best available evidence we have for these critically ill patients. Tridente et al. conclude that in a large cohort of patients admitted to European ICUs with fecal peritonitis the 6-month mortality was 31.6 %. The most consistent predictors of mortality across all time points were increased age, development of acute renal dysfunction during the first week of admission, and hypothermia on day 1 of ICU admission. …
