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dr_lowenstein

02/06/11 3:16 PM

#2118 RE: ping_pow_princess #2117

Yes, of course. I think what you may be getting at is what if they have endotoxemia that has not yet progressed to full blown sever sepsis? That is an individual institutional/physician assessment. The dilemma is that placing patients in the ICU can sometimes result in them getting sicker (there a lot of papers on this), but you must balance that against risking the loss of early intervention that may be critical for the patient.