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sepsis and septicemia

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tonguo
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07/11/04 - 02:26 PM

who can tell me their differences? thanks a lot!

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07/11/04 - 03:36 PM

Basically they mean the same-enough organism in the system- to manifest symptoms-eg. fever, hypotensive, cold ,clammy , chills, pus
Septic-noun(gram negative sepsis)
Septicemia -refers more to the blood (closer to being an adverb)

I remember it like this -you can be bacteremic or have bacteremia (bacteria in the blood) ,but not be septic or have sepsis
Hope this helps

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tonguo
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07/11/04 - 09:06 PM

mjl1717,

really appreciate it! so can i say it in the other way--those who have septicemia/sepsis will have bacteremia for sure?

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07/11/04 - 10:55 PM

Bacteremia - the presence of viable bacteria in blood
Sepsis - the systemic response to infection: temperature, heart rate >90, Respiratory rate >20, or PaCO2 <32, white blood cell count >12000 or <4000 and etc.

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07/11/04 - 10:59 PM

"tonguo" wrote:
really appreciate it! so can i say it in the other way--those who have septicemia/sepsis will have bacteremia for sure?

yes

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07/12/04 - 03:44 PM

I had teachers saying that it's the same, others saying it's not. Good news is, those who claimed it was different, gave same answer as bozhenka grin

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tonguo
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07/13/04 - 07:16 PM

Thanks, y'all. U made these concepts very clear to me now.

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