Profile of the risk of death after septic shock in the present era: an epidemiologic study.

Objectives: To investigate mortality of ICU patients over a 3-month period after an initial episode of septic shock and to identify factors associated with mortality.

Design: Prospective multicenter observational cohort study.

Setting: Fourteen ICUs from 10 French nonacademic and university teaching hospitals.

The epidemiology of septic shock in French intensive care units: the prospective multicenter cohort EPISS study.

Introduction: To provide up-to-date information on the prognostic factors associated with 28-day mortality in a cohort of septic shock patients in intensive care units (ICUs).

Methods: Prospective, multicenter, observational cohort study in ICUs from 14 French general (non-academic) and university teaching hospitals. All consecutive patients with septic shock admitted between November 2009 and March 2011 were eligible for inclusion.

The prognostic value of nutritional and inflammatory indices in critically ill patients with acute respiratory failure.

In critically ill patients suffering from acute respiratory failure, weaning from ventilatory assistance is a key survival factor in intensive care units (ICU). The aim of this study was to provide deeper insight into laboratory methods allowing improved monitoring of that critical period. Eighty-three ICU patients (mean age 63.