Cardiogenic shock represents 5 13%% of diagnosed cases of shock in pediatric emergencies [3, 4].
Thus, septic shock represents an extreme manifestation of the host inflammatory response to severe infection.
Sepsis and septic shock represent complex situations where early hemodynamic assessment and support are among the keys to therapeutic success.
Despite of having an increased risk of death in common, patients with sepsis or septic shock represent a heterogeneous group of critically ill patients with different genotypes, comorbidities, underlying infections, clinical presentations (phenotypes), treatment requirements, and prognoses.
Responsiveness to electric shock represents a situation that, even if it is artificial as bees do not have to respond to electric shocks in nature, allows measuring sensitivity to a noxious stimulus.
Severe sepsis and septic shock represent global problems with a high economic burden.
Sepsis and septic shock represent an over-exuberant host response to an infectious insult.
Sepsis and septic shock represent the most frequent causes of death in surgical intensive care units.
Severe sepsis, or septic shock, represents one of the oldest problems in medicine.
