Risk factors for prolonged infection and secondary infection in pediatric severe sepsis
Sepsis causes significant worldwide morbidity and mortality. Inability to clear an infection and secondary infections are known complications in severe sepsis and likely result in worsened outcomes. We sought to characterize risk factors of these complications. We performed a secondary analysis of c...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Infection 2024-08 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Sepsis causes significant worldwide morbidity and mortality. Inability to clear an infection and secondary infections are known complications in severe sepsis and likely result in worsened outcomes. We sought to characterize risk factors of these complications.
We performed a secondary analysis of clinical data from 401 subjects enrolled in the PHENOtyping sepsis-induced Multiple organ failure Study. We examined factors associated with prolonged infection, defined as infection that continued to be identified 7 days or more from initial identification, and secondary infection, defined as new infections identified ≥ 3 days from presentation. Multivariable adjustment was performed to examine laboratory markers of immune depression, with immunocompromised and immunocompetent subjects analyzed separately.
Illness severity, immunocompromised status, invasive procedures, and site of infection were associated with secondary infection and/or prolonged infection. Persistent lymphopenia, defined as an absolute lymphocyte count (ALC) |
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ISSN: | 0300-8126 1439-0973 1439-0973 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s15010-024-02355-1 |