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The Early Chain of Care in Patients with Bacteraemia with the Emphasis on the Prehospital Setting.

Christer AxelssonJohan HerlitzAnders KarlssonHenrik SjöbergMaria Jiménez-HerreraAngela BångAnders JonssonAnders BremerHenrik AnderssonMartin GellerstedtLars Ljungström
Published in: Prehospital and disaster medicine (2016)
Among patients with bacteraemia, 75% used the EMS, and these patients were older, included more men, and suffered from more severe symptoms and signs. The EMS nurse suspected sepsis in six percent of cases. Regardless of whether or not patients with true pathogens were isolated, a suspicion of sepsis by the EMS clinician at the scene was associated with a shorter delay to the start of antibiotic treatment. Axelsson C , Herlitz J , Karlsson A , Sjöberg H , Jiménez-Herrera M , Bång A , Jonsson A , Bremer A , Andersson H , Gellerstedt M , Ljungström L . The early chain of care in patients with bacteraemia with the emphasis on the prehospital setting. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2016;31(3):272-277.
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