Evaluation of RCDW as a septic marker
Zakaria, Karim
Sepsis is a systemic, deleterious host response to infection leading to severe sepsis (acute organ dysfunction secondary to documented or suspected infection) and septic shock (severe sepsis plus hypotension not reversed with fluid resuscitation). Severe sepsis and septic shock are major healthcare problems affecting millions of individuals around the world each year, killing one in four and often more and increasing in incidence. The septic r...