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Disease septicemia
Symptom C0020672|hypothermia
Sentences 8
PubMedID- 21639927 It is important to note that hypothermia during sepsis in adult patients has been associated with increased mortality and higher circulating levels of tnf-a and il-6 .
PubMedID- 25192953 Although the coexistence of sepsis could lead to hypothermia, thereby influencing the body temperature, intracellular glycopenia at the thermoregulatory center in the hypothalamus might also be one of the central causes of hypothermia .
PubMedID- 24220071 Therefore, 36.5°c was considered the threshold for hypothermia in patients with severe sepsis, irrespective of the presence of septic shock.
PubMedID- 25231976 However, therapeutic hypothermia increases sepsis risk and unintentional hypothermia in surgical patients increases infectious complications.
PubMedID- 20875107 Clemmer et al evaluated the consequences of clinical hypothermia associated with severe sepsis and septic shock.
PubMedID- 23989182 Conclusion: the available evidence, subject to its limitations, strongly suggests an association between therapeutic hypothermia and the risk of pneumonia and sepsis, whereas no increase in the overall risk of infection was observed.
PubMedID- 20224981 Truncation of operation with abdominal packing, bowel closure, external drainage of bile and pancreatic ducts, and rapid abdominal closure with planned subsequent completion laparotomy should be considered in pancreatic operations when patients risk intraoperative acidosis, hypothermia, and coagulopathy due to sepsis or hemorrhage.
PubMedID- 25793436 Of the 445 patients with sepsis included, hypothermia developed in 64 patients (14.4%) (defined as a body temperature<36.0 degrees c) within 24 hours of sepsis diagnosis.

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