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Table 1 Recommended timing of source control procedures in patients with sepsis and septic shock

From: How I search for a sepsis source

Emergent (within 1 h of diagnosis)

Urgent (within 6 h of diagnosis)

Delayed

Necrotizing skin and soft tissue infection debridement

Peritonitis with gastrointestinal leak

Infected pancreatic necrosis

CVC removal

Abdominal abscess

 

Wound abscess drainage

Cholecystitis

 

Peritonitis with abdominal compartment syndrome

Empyema drainage

 
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Critical Care

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