A Cross Sectional Study To Evaluate The Changes In Red Cell Width And Neutrophil Lymphocytic Count Ratio During The First Week Of Sepsis And Its Correlation With The Assessment Of Severity Of Sepsis

Abstract

Sepsis is a disease characterized by systemic inflammation due to infection, range of severity is from sepsis and septic shock. Data from the centre for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that sepsis is the most important cause of death among noncoronary intensive care unit(ICU) patients and the tenth most common etiology of death worldwide, the first being heart disease.¹ For 30 years, sepsis incidence and related mortality rates have increased despite improvements in intensive care and antimicrobial therapy.² In the USA, sepsis mortality is estimated to be 30% and deaths due to septic shock to be 80%. ³ and in Europe mortality was 12.8% was sepsis and due to septic shock was 45.7%.⁴