From: Phase I safety trial of intravenous ascorbic acid in patients with severe sepsis
Underlying conditions | Source of sepsis | Organism | Renal failure? | Respiratory failure? |
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Lung cancer | Pneumonia | Blood: E.coli, Strep bovis | no | yes |
Resp: E.coli | ||||
Prodrome with nausea and vomiting for 7 days | Pneumonia | Blood: culture negative | no | yes |
Urine: Legionella antigen positive | ||||
ETOH cirrhosis | Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis | Blood: culture negative | no | yes |
Status/Post gastric bypass | Urinary tract infection | Blood: E. Coli | no | yes |
Obstructive nephrolithiasis pyelonephritis | Urinary tract infection | Blood: E.Coli | no | yes |
Urine: E.Coli | ||||
End stage renal disease | Catheter sepsis | Blood: MRSA | yes (prior to admission) | yes |
Acute myelogenous leukemia (relapse) | Portacath sepsis | Blood: MRSA | no | yes |
Urine: Enterobacter | ||||
Influenza | Pneumonia with coexistent Influenza A | Blood: Strep pneumonia | no | yes |
Resp: Influenza A | ||||
Diabetes mellitus | Infected diabetic foot ulcer | Blood: Staph aureus | no | yes |
Chronic kidney disease | Body Fluid: Staph aureus | |||
Gout | Resp: MRSA | |||
Head and neck cancer | Pneumonia | Blood: culture negative | no | yes |
Resp: culture negative | ||||
Diabetes mellitus | Pneumonia and colitis | Blood: culture negative | yes (dialysis required) | yes |
Congestive heart failure | ||||
Gastrointestinal hemorrhage | ||||
Resp: MRSA | ||||
Cellulitis | Pneumonia | Blood: Group a strep. | no | no |
Hypercholesterolemia | Urinary tract infection | |||
Multiple myeloma | PneumoniaUrinary tract infection | Blood: Gram positive cocci | no | yes |
Urine: Proteus mirabilis | ||||
Non-Hodgkins lymphoma | Pancreatitis | Resp: Aspergillus fumigatus | no | yes |
Bone marrow transplant | Intra-abdominal sepsis | Blood: Gram negative rods, Gram positive cocci | no | yes |
Bowel perforation | ||||
Post allogeneic bone marrow transplant | Pneumonia | Blood: culture negative | no | yes |
Chronic opiate use | Aspiration pneumonia | Blood: Strep. pneumonia | no | yes |
Found obtunded | Resp: Strep. pneumonia, Candida glabrata | |||
Diabetes mellitus | Aspiration pneumonia | Resp: Gram negative rods, gram positive cocci | yes (prior to admission) | yes |
End stage renal disease | ||||
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | Pneumonia | Blood: culture negative | no | yes |
Resp: Acinetobacter, Stenotrophomonas maltiphilia | ||||
Toxic epidermal necrolysis | Skin | Blood: MRSA | yes | yes |
Acute renal failure | ||||
Alcoholic cirrhosis | Subacute bacterial peritonitis | Blood: culture negative | no | no |
Hepatorenal syndrome | ||||
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | Pneumonia | Blood: Gram positive rods | no | yes |
Severe ankylosing spondylitis | Urinary tract infection | Blood: Klebsiella pneumonia | no | yes |
Urine: Klebsiella pneumonia | ||||
Severe aortic stenosis | ||||
Hepatitis C cirrhosis | Health care acquired pneumonia | Blood: culture negative | yes (dialysis required) | yes |
Urine: Enterococcus | ||||
Esophageal varicies | ||||
Systemic mastocytosis | Pneumonia | Blood: culture negative | no | yes |
Congestive heart failure | Resp: Budding yeast with pseudohyphae |