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IMPROVING ADULT SEPSIS SURVIVAL in Low and Middle Income Countries Tim Stephens, BA ( Hons ) Nursing, RGN, MSc (Global Health). Objectives of presentation – to answer the following: . What is sepsis? What is the burden of sepsis and it’s associated mortality?
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IMPROVING ADULT SEPSIS SURVIVAL in Low and Middle Income CountriesTim Stephens, BA (Hons) Nursing, RGN, MSc (Global Health)
Objectives of presentation – to answer the following: • What is sepsis? • What is the burden of sepsis and it’s associated mortality? • In resource poor settings, what could be done to reduce mortality.? • What is currently happening and what more could be done..?
Sepsis – When the bodies reaction to infection moves from a localised to a generalised response • e.g. A cut becomes infected, there is some swelling and redness around the injury – local inflammatory processes cause this...sepsis is the continuation of these processes at a systemic (whole body) level • Final common pathway of many infectious processes e.g. Bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic infection
Bone et al (1992) SIRS = Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome
Burden of Mortality • USA - it is the 10th leading cause of death (Minino et al, 2010) and is estimated to kill in excess of 215,000 people per year (Angus et al, 2001). • The incidence of sepsis in LMICs, and its consequent burden of mortality, is currently not known (Adhikari et al, 2010).
Sepsis as complicating factor • Sepsis is not a disease in itself but a component cause of morbidity and mortality in association with diseases such: • HIV, • Blood stream infection (BSI) and • Pneumonia • Malaria • Diabetes • Chronic Renal Failure and • Cancer (N.B. Increasing concern about rise of NCDs in LMICs)
Groups at risk of sepsis in LMICs • HIV (OR for BSI = 3.4, Reddy et al, 2010) • Maternal complications (approx. 10% of all maternal mortality, Khan et al, 2006) • Diabetes (25-75% increased risk of sepsis, Hall et al, 2011) • HAIs (15 /100 in-patients will contract a nosocomial infection in LMICs, Allegranzi et al, 2010)
LMIC mortality data • Median (and mean) mortality rates for severe sepsis and septic shock can be calculated as 44.95% (45.67%) and 53.35% (62.86%) respectively. • Severe sepsis mortality USA - mortality rate of 28.6% (Angus et al, 2001)
Sepsis mortality in context • Brazil - Overall mortality vs. severe sepsis mortality (21-29% for all cause in hospital mortality vs. 51.6 – 56.8% with severe sepsis; Kauss et al, 2011, Silva et al, 2004). • Uganda - all cause in-hospital mortality of 15.4% compared to an in-hospital mortality of 23.7% and a 28 day-mortality of 43.0% for patients with severe sepsis (Jacob et al, 2009).
Estimating sepsis incidence – based on Adhikari et al (2010) • Population incidence of 77 to 300 per 100,000; (Finfer et al, 2004; Angus et al, 2001) for severe sepsis applied to population data for LMICs • Caveat 1 – this is a very rough estimate as in LMICs there are many more deaths are caused by infection • Caveat 2 – Angus et al data very inclusive – likely to overestimate incidence of severe sepsis. Finfer et al data only ICU population, not total population.
Cause specific deaths(per 100,000 population) • HIV – 163 • Malaria - 58 • TB - 46 (LICs only; WHO, 2011) • Severe Sepsis – 34.5 - 135
Take home points... • With the conservative estimates, severe sepsis may have a mortality similar to that of TB and at most worst, it may be very similar to that of HIV • The problem is...we don’t actually know. • Very hard therefore to mobilise resources against an invisible foe
Difficulties faced in sepsis epidemiology • No single test • Short prodrome followed by resolution or death • Clinical diagnosis – current criteria over sensitive / lacking in specificity, especially in context of LMICs • Diagnosis supported by blood or other microbiological cultures – limited availability in LMICS • Clinical Coding unreliable in many LMICs
Severe Sepsis • Difficult to define and measure. • Is it also difficult to treat?
Sepsis Resuscitation Bundle (adapted from Levy et al, 2010) (To be accomplished as soon as possible and scored over first 6 hours): 1. Serum lactate measured. 2. Blood cultures obtained prior to antibiotic administration. 3. From the time of presentation, broad-spectrum antibiotics administered within 3 hours for ED admissions and 1 hour for non-ED ICU admissions. 4. In the event of hypotension and/or lactate > 4 mmol/L (36 mg/dl): a) Deliver an initial minimum of 20 ml/kg of crystalloid (or colloid equivalent). b) Apply vasopressors for hypotension not responding to initial fluid resuscitation to maintain mean arterial pressure (MAP) > 65 mm Hg. 5. In the event of persistent hypotension despite fluid resuscitation (septic shock) and/or lactate > 4 mmol/L (36 mg/dl): a) Achieve central venous pressure (CVP) of > 8 mm Hg. b) Achieve central venous oxygen saturation (ScvO2) of > 70%.*
Over the first 6 hrs after the onset of recurrent or persistent hypotension, each hour of delay in initiation of effective antimicrobial therapy was associated with mean decrease in survival of 7.6% (range 3.6 –9.9%; Fig. 1).
Urgent requirements for improving sepsis survival • Prospective epidemiological studies to identify the sepsis burden within LMICs. • Randomised controlled trials (RCT) based of protocol based care for severe sepsis in adults, using low cost and widely available interventions to generate a new evidence base that is relevant to LMIC contexts.
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