The Japanese Clinical Practice Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock 2020 (J-SSCG 2020).

The Japanese Clinical Practice Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock 2020 (J-SSCG 2020), a Japanese-specific set of clinical practice guidelines for sepsis and septic shock created as revised from J-SSCG 2016 jointly by the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine and the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine, was first released in September 2020 and published in February 2021. An English-language version of these guidelines was created based on the contents of the original Japanese-language version. The purpose of this guideline is to assist medical staff in making appropriate decisions to improve the prognosis of patients undergoing treatment for sepsis and septic shock.

The Japanese Clinical Practice Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock 2016 (J-SSCG 2016).

Background And Purpose: The Japanese Clinical Practice Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock 2016 (J-SSCG 2016), a Japanese-specific set of clinical practice guidelines for sepsis and septic shock created jointly by the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine and the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine, was first released in February 2017 in Japanese. An English-language version of these guidelines was created based on the contents of the original Japanese-language version.

Methods: Members of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine and the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine were selected and organized into 19 committee members and 52 working group members.

Analysis of non-traumatic truncal back pain in patients who visited an emergency room.

Aim: To investigate epidemiology of acute non-traumatic back pain using modern diagnostic methods in patients who visited an emergency room.

Methods: The medical charts were retrospectively reviewed for all patients with back pain who were treated in our hospital. In addition, the patients were divided into two groups based on whether they were treated at the hospital or as outpatients.

A case of paraparesis with thoracic ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament and the ligamentum flavum induced by falling down on the abdomen.

Aim: To describe an educational case.

Methods: Case report.

Results: A 71-year-old female was transported to our emergency department with complaints of lower abdominal pain and gate disturbance after falling down on her abdomen.