Prompt Administration of Antibiotics and Fluids in the Treatment of Sepsis: A Murine Trial.
Prompt Administration of Antibiotics and Fluids in the Treatment of Sepsis: A Murine Trial.
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DOI:
10.1097/ccm.0000000000003004
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发表时间:
2018-05
影响因子:
8.8
通讯作者:
Rosengart MR
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作者:
Lewis AJ;Griepentrog JE;Zhang X;Angus DC;Seymour CW;Rosengart MR
Sepsis, the acute organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection, poses a serious public health burden. Current management includes early detection, initiation of antibiotics and fluids, and source control as necessary. Although observational data suggest that delays of even a few hours in the initiation of antibiotics or intravenous fluids is associated with survival, these findings are controversial. There are no randomized data in humans, and prior animal studies studied time from experimental manipulation, not from the onset of clinical features of sepsis. Using a recently developed murine cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) model that precisely monitors physiologic deterioration, we hypothesize that incremental hourly delays in the first dose of antibiotics, in the first bolus of fluid resuscitation, or a combination of the two at a clinically relevant point of physiologic deterioration during polymicrobial sepsis will shorten survival. Randomized laboratory animal experimental trial. University basic science laboratory Male C57BL/6J, female C57BL/6J, aged (40–50 weeks) male C57BL/6J, and BALB/C mice Mice (n=200) underwent biotelemetry-enhanced CLP and were randomized after meeting validated criteria for acute physiologic deterioration. Treatment groups consisted of a single dose of imipenem/cilastin, a single bolus of 30 mL/kg fluid resuscitation, or a combination of the two. Mice were allocated to receive treatment at the time of meeting deterioration criteria, after a 2-hour delay, or after a 4-hour delay. Hourly delays in the initiation of antibiotic therapy led to progressively shortened survival in our model (p<0.001). The addition of fluid resuscitation was unable to rescue animals, which received treatment four hours after meeting enrollment criteria. Systemic inflammation was increased and host physiology was increasingly deranged with hourly delays to antibiotics. We conclude that antibiotic therapy is highly time-sensitive, and efforts should be made to deliver this critical therapy as early as possible in sepsis, perhaps extending into the first point of medical contact outside the hospital.