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care provider. And now on to the show. Welcome to episode 58 of Felix Talk. I'm your

co-host Dr. Cain. And I'm Dr. Patel. In today's episode is entitled, Third Times a Charm, Redefining Sepsis, again, using Sepsis 3.

So today we're talking about the relatively new sepsis criteria and guidelines for what exactly is sepsis.

So Dr. Kane, I do not obviously practice in an acute care environment.

So this idea and notion is very new to me.

And I'm excited to talk about how the evolution of this definition has become and what

it is now.

Great.

Well, why don't we start with a patient case?

So let's say Dr. Patel that you were seeing a patient that presents to your clinic with shortness of breath,

productive cough, fever, and chills. And we'll say that pneumonia's, a community-acquired pneumonia,

is high up on your differential list. We'll say the patient has the typical past medical

history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, a diabetic, someone within stage renal disease on

haemodalysis, hasn't really been in the hospital,

but certainly has some risk factors for getting sick and not having a great outcome from pneumonia.

And we'll say that their heart rate is a little tachycardic, 105, respiratory rate a little fast at 25.

They're saturating 92% on room air, and their blood pressure is on the lower

side. So normally we'll say they run 130s, 140s. Today they're at 95 over 65, which is a mean

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