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Sepsis & Septic Shock

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A dysregulated host response to infection that produces life-threatening organ dysfunction. The Sepsis-3 framework (2016) abandoned the old "SIRS-based sepsis/severe sepsis" terminology and reframed sepsis around organ dysfunction (SOFA score) and septic shock around vasopressor-dependent hypotension plus hyperlactataemia. This is a perennial high-yield NEET PG topic spanning definitions, the qSOFA screen, the Surviv

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