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septic shock

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medical condition defined as sepsis that has circulatory, cellular and metabolic abnormalities, is associated with clinical severity and greater risk of dying.

OverviewAI-generated

Septic shock is a medical condition identified in the NCI Thesaurus with the code C35018. It is also classified under the ICPC 2 system with the identifier A78. The condition is associated with the SYMP_0000451 ontology term and has a dedicated category on Wikimedia Commons.

Research on septic shock is extensive, with 48,076 related entries found in PubMed. Additionally, 1,139 clinical trials are listed for the condition on ClinicalTrials.gov. The topic is referenced by 364 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 9 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Key facts

Specialty
Infectious disease , critical care medicine , emergency medicine

via Wikipedia infobox

Health references

ICD-10
R57.2
Source: U.S. National Library of Medicine (ICD-10-CM · MedlinePlus). Not medical advice.

Research

48,076 papers

via PubMed

Wikidata facts

Instance of
disease
Subclass of
shock
Image
Sepsis & Choc septique.pdf
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on focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject COVID-19
NCI Thesaurus ID
C35018
health specialty
intensive care medicine
ICPC 2 ID
A78
Commons category
Septic shock
facet of
sepsis
Sources (6)

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Encyclopedic overview

Purpura caused by thrombocytopenia on right hand in patient with septic shock Septic shock is a potentially fatal medical condition that occurs when sepsis, which is defined as an abnormal immune response to infection that leads to life-threatening organ dysfunction, leads to dangerously low blood pressure and abnormalities in cellular and metabolic dysfunction. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3) defines septic shock as a subset of sepsis in which particularly profound circulatory, cellular, and metabolic abnormalities are associated with a greater risk of mortality than with sepsis alone. Patients with septic shock are cared for in the emergency department and intensive care units.

Causes

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “septic shock” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.