Insulin Sensitivity and Sepsis Score: A Correlation between Model-based Metric and Sepsis Scoring System in Critically Ill Patients

• Main Authors: Fatanah, M. Suhaimi, Chase, J. Geoffrey, Pretty, Christopher G., Shaw, Geoffrey M., Normy Norfiza, A. Razak, Ummu Kulthum, Jamaludin
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Elsevier 2017
• Subjects: QA Mathematics; RZ Other systems of medicine; TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General); TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/14155/1/1-s2.0-S1746809416301008-main.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/14155/7/Insulin%20sensitivity%20and%20sepsis%20score-%20A%20correlation%20between%20model-based%20metric%20and%20sepsis%20scoring%20system%20in%20critically%20ill%20patients%201.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/14155/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2016.08.005

Sepsis is highly correlated with mortality and morbidity. Sepsis is a clinical condition demarcated as the existence of infection and systemic inflammatory response syndrome, SIRS. Confirmation of infection requires a blood culture test, which requires incubation, and thus results take at least 48 h...