Modern treatment of sepsis. Treatment of sepsis and septic shock. Severe sepsis with PON

Microbiological diagnosis of sepsis.

Based on microbiological (bacteriological) examination of peripheral blood and material from the alleged focus of infection. When isolating typical pathogens (Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, fungi), one positive result is sufficient to make a diagnosis; if MBs are isolated that are skin saprophytes and can contaminate the sample (Staphylococcus epidermidis, other coagulase-negative staphylococci, diphtheroids), two positive blood cultures are required to confirm true bacteremia.

The diagnosis of sepsis should be considered proven if the same microorganism is isolated from the suspected site of infection and from the peripheral blood and there are signs of SIRS. If a microorganism is isolated from the blood, but there are no signs of SIRS, bacteremia is transient and is not sepsis.

Basic requirements for microbiological blood testing:

1. Blood for research must be taken before the appointment of AB; if the patient is already receiving ABT, blood should be taken immediately before the next administration of the drug

2. The standard for blood testing for sterility - sampling from two peripheral veins with an interval of up to 30 minutes, while blood must be taken from each vein in two vials (with media for the isolation of aerobes and anaerobes); if fungal etiology is suspected, special media should be used to isolate fungi.

3. Blood for research must be taken from a peripheral vein. Blood sampling from the catheter is not allowed (except in cases of suspected catheter-associated sepsis).

4. Blood sampling from a peripheral vein should be carried out with careful observance of asepsis: the skin at the site of venipuncture is treated twice with a solution of iodine or povidone-iodine with concentric movements from the center to the periphery for at least 1 minute, immediately before sampling, the skin is treated with 70% alcohol. When performing venipuncture, the operator uses sterile gloves and a sterile dry syringe. Each sample (about 10 ml of blood or the volume recommended by the vial manufacturer's instructions) is withdrawn into a separate syringe. The lid of each vial with the medium is treated with alcohol before piercing with a needle to inoculate blood from a syringe.

NB! Absence of bacteremia does not rule out sepsis, because even with the most scrupulous observance of the technique of blood sampling and the use of modern microbiological technologies in the most severe patients, the frequency of detection of bacteremia does not exceed 45%.

To make a diagnosis of sepsis, it is also necessary to carry out the necessary laboratory and instrumental studies to assess the state of a number of organs and systems (according to the classification of sepsis - see question 223), to assess the overall severity of the patient's condition on the A. Baue, SOFA, APACHE II, SAPS-II scales.

Basic principles of sepsis therapy:

1. Complete surgical sanitation of the focus of infection- without eliminating the focus of infection, intensive measures do not lead to a significant improvement in the patient's condition; when a source of infection is found, it should be drained as much as possible, according to indications, necrectomy should be performed, internal sources of contamination should be removed, perforations of hollow organs should be eliminated, etc.

2. Rational antibiotic therapy- can be empirical and etiotropic; in the case of an unidentified focus of infection, antibiotics of the widest spectrum of action should be used.

Principles of antibiotic therapy:

Antibiotic therapy for sepsis should be prescribed immediately after the nosological diagnosis has been clarified and until the results of a bacteriological study are obtained (empirical therapy); after receiving the results of a bacteriological study, the ABT regimen can be changed taking into account the isolated microflora and its antibiotic sensitivity (etiotropic therapy)

At the stage of empirical ABT, it is necessary to use antibiotics with a wide spectrum of activity, and, if necessary, to combine them; the choice of a specific empirical ABT is based on:

a) the spectrum of suspected pathogens depending on the location of the primary focus

b) the level of resistance of nosocomial pathogens according to microbiological monitoring data

c) conditions for the occurrence of sepsis - out-of-hospital or nosocomial

d) the severity of the infection, assessed by the presence of multiple organ failure or the APACHE II scale

In community-acquired sepsis, drugs of choice are third-generation cephalosporins (cefotaxime, ceftriaxone) or fourth-generation fluoroquinolones (levofloxacin, moxifloxacin) + metronidazole; in nosocomial sepsis, drugs of choice are carbapenems (imipenem, meropenem) + vancomycin or linezolid + vancomycin.

When an etiologically significant microorganism is isolated from the blood or the primary focus of infection, it is necessary to carry out etiotropic antibiotic therapy (methicillin-sensitive staphylococcus - oxacillin or oxacillin + gentamicin, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus - vancomycin and / or linezolid, pneumococcus - III generation cephalosporins, if ineffective - vancomycin, enterobacteria - carbapenems, etc. .d., anaerobes - metronidazole or lincosamides: clindamycin, lincomycin, candida - amphotericin B, fluconazole, caspofungin)

ABT of sepsis is carried out until a stable positive dynamics of the patient's condition is achieved, the main symptoms of infection disappear, negative blood culture

3. Pathogenetic therapy of complicated sepsis:

a) hemodynamic support:

Hemodynamic monitoring is carried out invasively using a floating Swan-Ganz type catheter, which is inserted into the pulmonary artery and allows you to fully assess the state of blood circulation at the patient's bedside

Conducting infusion therapy using solutions of crystalloids and colloids in order to restore tissue perfusion and normalize cellular metabolism, correct hemostasis disorders, reduce mediators of the septic cascade and the level of toxic metabolites in the blood

Within the next 6 hours, you must achieve the following target values: CVP 8-12 mm Hg, BPmean> 65 mm Hg, diuresis 0.5 ml/kg/h, hematocrit> 30%, blood saturation in the superior vena cava 70%.

The volume of infusion therapy is selected strictly individually, taking into account the patient's condition. It is recommended to introduce 500-1000 ml of crystalloids (physical solution, Ringer solution, Normosol solution, etc.) or 300-500 ml of colloids (solutions of destrana, albumin, gelatinol) in the first 30 minutes of infusion therapy. , hydroxyethyl starches), evaluate the results (in terms of increased blood pressure and cardiac output) and tolerability of the infusion, and then repeat the infusions in an individual volume.

The introduction of drugs that correct the state of the blood: infusion of cryoplasma with coagulopathy of consumption, transfusion of donor erythrocyte mass with a decrease in hemoglobin level below 90-100 g/l

The use of vasopressors and drugs with a positive inotropic effect according to indications is indicated if the corresponding fluid load is not able to restore adequate blood pressure and organ perfusion, which should be monitored not only by the level of systemic pressure, but also by the presence of anaerobic metabolic products such as lactate in the blood, etc. .d. The drugs of choice for correcting hypotension in septic shock are norepinephrine and dopamine/dopamine 5–10 mcg/kg/min via a central catheter; the first line drug to increase cardiac output is dobutamine 15–20 mcg/kg/min IV

b) correction of acute respiratory failure (ARDS): respiratory support (IVL) with parameters that provide adequate ventilation of the lungs (PaO 2 > 60 mm Hg, PvO 2 35-45 mm Hg, SaO 2 > 93%, SvO 2 > 55%)

c) adequate nutritional support– necessary, because PON in sepsis is accompanied by hypermetabolism, in which the body covers its energy costs by digesting its own cellular structures, which leads to endotoxicosis and potentiates multiple organ failure.

The earlier nutritional support is started, the better the results, the method of nutrition is determined by the functional capacity of the gastrointestinal tract and the degree of nutritional deficiency.

Energy value - 25 - 35 kcal / kg / day in the acute phase and 35 - 50 kcal / kg / day in the phase of stable hypermetabolism

Glucose< 6 г/кг/сут, липиды 0,5 - 1 г/кг/сут, белки 1,2 – 2,0 г/кг/сут

Vitamins - standard daily set + vitamin K (10 mg/day) + vit B1 and B6 (100 mg/day) + vit A, C, E

Trace elements - standard daily set + Zn (15-20 mg / day + 10 mg / l in the presence of loose stools)

Electrolytes - Na + , K + , Ca2 + according to balance calculations and plasma concentration

d) hydrocortisone in small doses 240-300 mg / day for 5-7 days - accelerates the stabilization of hemodynamics and allows you to quickly cancel vascular support, indicated in the presence of signs of septic shock or adrenal insufficiency

e) anticoagulant therapy: activated protein C / zigris / drotrecogin-alpha - indirect anticoagulant, also has anti-inflammatory, antiplatelet and profibrinolytic effects; the use of activated protein C at a dose of 24 mcg / kg / h in the first 96 hours of sepsis reduces the risk of death by about 20%

f) immunoreplacement therapy: pentaglobin (IgG + IgM) at a dose of 3-5 ml / kg / day for 3 days - limits the damaging effect of pro-inflammatory cytokines, increases the clearance of endotoxins, eliminates anergy, enhances the effects of beta-lactams. Intravenous administration of immunoglobulins is the only really proven method of immunocorrection in sepsis that increases survival.

g) prevention of deep vein thrombosis in long-term patients: heparin 5000 IU 2-3 times / day s / c for 7-10 days under the mandatory control of APTT or low molecular weight heparins

h) prevention of stress ulcers of the gastrointestinal tract: famotidine / quamatel 50 mg 3-4 times/day IV, omeprazole 20 mg 2 times/day IV

i) extracorporeal detoxification(hemodialysis, hemofiltration, plasmapheresis)

Inadequate initial antibiotic therapy, defined as the lack of in vitro effect of an antimicrobial agent against an isolated pathogen responsible for the development of an infectious disease, is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in patients with neutropenic fever or severe sepsis. To reduce the likelihood of inappropriate antibiotic therapy, recent international guidelines for the treatment of sepsis have proposed empiric therapy targeting Gram-negative bacteria, especially when Pseudomonas infection is suspected. However, the authors of this recommendation are aware that "there is no single study or meta-analysis that, in a specific group of patients with certain pathogens, has convincingly shown an excellent clinical result of a combination of drugs."

Theoretical basis for prescribing combination therapy:

• an increase in the likelihood that at least one drug will be active against the pathogen;
• prevention of persistent superinfection;
• immunomodulatory non-antibacterial effect of the secondary agent;
• enhancement of antimicrobial action based on synergistic activity.

Unlike patients with febrile neutropenia, which has been repeatedly and well studied, there have been no randomized trials of severe septic patients with increased capillary permeability syndrome and multiple organ failure, in which the mechanisms of distribution and metabolism of antibiotics may be impaired.

The essence of the study of empiric treatment of sepsis

The main aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of combination therapy with two broad-spectrum antibiotics moxifloxacin and meropenem with meropenem monotherapy in multiple organ failure caused by sepsis.

METHODS: A randomized, open, parallel group study was conducted. 600 patients with severe sepsis or septic shock criteria were enrolled.

Monotherapy received 298 people - the first group, and combination therapy 302 - the second group. The study was conducted from October 16, 2007 to March 23, 2010 in 44 intensive care units in Germany. The number of patients evaluated in the monotherapy group was 273 and 278 in the combination therapy group.

In the first group, patients were prescribed intravenous administration of meropenem 1 g every 8 hours; in the second group, moxifloxacin 400 mg was added to meropenem every 24 hours. The duration of treatment was 7–14 days from enrollment in the study to discharge from the intensive care unit or death, whichever occurred first.

The main evaluation criterion was the degree of multiple organ failure according to the SOFA scale, which is a point scale in patients with septic syndrome. State score: from 0 to 24 points, higher values ​​indicate more severe multiple organ failure. Also, the evaluation criterion was all-cause mortality on days 28 and 90. The survivors were followed up for 90 days.

RESULTS: Among the 551 patients evaluated, there was no statistically significant difference in mean SOFA score between groups treated with meropenem and moxifloxacin (8.3 points at 95% CI, 7.8-8.8 points) and meropenem alone (7.9 points - 95% CI 7 .5-8.4 points) (P = 0.36).

Also, there was no statistically significant difference in mortality at 28 and 90 days.

By day 28, there were 66 deaths (23.9%, 95% CI 19.0%-29.4%) in the combination group compared with 59 patients (21.9%, 95% CI 17.1%-27 .4%) in the monotherapy group (P = 0.58).

By day 90, there were 96 deaths (35.3%, 95% CI 29.6%-41.3%) in the combination therapy group compared with 84 (32.1%, 95% CI 26.5%-38, 1%) in the monotherapy group (P = 0.43).

CONCLUSIONS: In adult patients with severe sepsis, combination treatment with meropenem and moxifloxacin compared with meropenem alone does not improve the severity of multiple organ failure and does not affect outcome.

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Treatment of septic patients should be carried out under constant clinical and laboratory monitoring, including an assessment of the general condition, pulse, blood pressure and CVP, hourly diuresis, body temperature, respiratory rate, ECG, pulse oximetry. It should be mandatory to study general blood and urine tests, indicators of the acid-base state, electrolyte metabolism, blood levels of residual nitrogen, urea, creatinine, sugar, coagulogram (clotting time, fibrinogen content, platelets, etc.). All these studies must be carried out at least once or twice a day in order to be able to make timely adjustments to ongoing therapy.

Comprehensive treatment of sepsis is one of the most difficult tasks. It usually consists of two main areas:

1. Active surgical treatment of primary and metastatic purulent foci.

2. General intensive treatment of a septic patient, the purpose of which is a rapid correction of homeostasis.

Surgical treatment of sepsis

Surgical treatment is aimed at removal of a septic focus and is carried out in any condition of the patient, often according to vital indications. The operation should be extremely low-traumatic, as radical as possible, and the preparation for it should be extremely short-term, using any light interval for intervention. The method of anesthesia is gentle. The best conditions for the revision of the focus are provided with intubation anesthesia (induction - seduxen, ketamine; main anesthesia - NLA, GHB, etc.).

Surgical treatment of a purulent focus should be carried out with the obligatory observance of a number of requirements:

I. With multiple foci, it is necessary to strive to perform the operation at the same time.

2. The operation is performed according to the type of surgical treatment of the pyemic focus and consists in the complete excision of all non-viable tissues with an incision sufficient to open the existing pockets and streaks. The treated wound cavity is additionally treated with a pulsating jet of antibacterial fluid, laser beams, ultrasound, cryotherapy or vacuuming.

3. Surgical treatment of a purulent focus is completed in various ways:

Suturing under conditions of active drainage of the wound with its washing and vecuum aspiration or "flow" method;

Treatment of a wound under a bandage with multicomponent hydrophilic ointments or draining sorbents;

Sewing the wound tightly (according to limited indications);

Suturing in conditions of transmembrane wound dialysis.

4. In all cases, after surgical treatment, it is necessary to create rest conditions in the wound area by immobilization to eliminate pain impulses, negative neurotrophic effects, tissue trauma.

When combining the seam of a purulent wound with active antibacterial drainage, washing the wound cavity with antiseptic solutions is carried out for 7-10 days daily for 6-12 hours, depending on the condition of the wound. The technique of flow-aspiration drainage provides mechanical cleansing of the purulent focus from necrotic detritus and has a direct antimicrobial effect on the wound microflora. Washing usually requires 1-2 liters of solution (0.1% dioxidine solution, 0.1% furagin solution, 3% boric acid solution, 0.02% furatsilina solution, etc.). In the treatment of purulent processes caused by clostridial microflora, solutions of hydrogen peroxide, potassium permanganate, metrogil are used for washing. The washing method is available, technically simple, applicable in any conditions. It should be noted that flushing drainage in anaerobic infections is less effective than in purulent ones, since it does not lead to a rapid decrease in excess tissue edema.

Modern methods of active influence on a festering wound are aimed at a sharp reduction in the first and second phases of the wound process. The main objectives of the treatment of wounds in the first (purulent-necrotic) stage of the wound process is the suppression of infection, the elimination of hyperosmia, acidosis, the activation of the process of rejection of necrotic tissues, and the adsorption of toxic wound discharge. Thus, drugs for wound chemotherapy should have a simultaneous multidirectional effect on a purulent wound - antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, necrolytic and analgesic.

Ointments on a hydrophilic (water-soluble) basis have now become the drugs of choice in the treatment of purulent wounds; Any hypertonic solutions have an extremely short-term effect on a purulent wound (no more than 2-8 hours), as they are quickly diluted with wound secretion and lose their osmotic activity. In addition, these solutions (antiseptics, antibiotics) have a certain damaging effect on the tissues and cells of the macroorganism.

Multicomponent ointments (levosin, levomikol, levonorsin, sulfamilon, dioxykol, sulfamekol) have been developed, which include antimicrobial agents (levomycetin, norsulfazol, sulfadimethoxin, dioxidine), an activator of tissue metabolic processes (methyluracil), a local anesthetic (trimecaine), and a hydrophilic base ointment (polyethylene oxide), provides its dehydrating effect in a purulent wound. Due to hydrogen bonds, polyethylene oxide (PEO) forms complex compounds with water, and the bond of water with the polymer is not rigid: taking water from tissues, PEO relatively easily releases it into a gauze bandage. The ointment reduces interstitial hypertension, is able to suppress the wound microflora after 3-5 days. The ointment lasts 16-18 hours, the dressing is usually changed daily.

In recent years, water-absorbing draining sorbents such as "Sorbilex", "Debrizan" (Sweden), "Galevin" (Russian Federation), coal adsorbents of granular and fibrous structure have found wide application for influencing the focus of purulent infection. Local application of draining sorbents has an effective anti-inflammatory effect, accelerates wound healing processes and reduces treatment time. Dressings are performed daily, sorbents on the dressing are removed with hydrogen peroxide and an antiseptic jet. Achieved by the sorbent and partial regional detoxification (adsorption of toxic substances by sorbents).

Wound dialysis- the method of osmoactive transmembrane drainage of wounds developed at our academy, combining continuous dehydration effect with controlled chemotherapy in a purulent-septic focus (EA Selezov, 1991). This is a new original highly effective way of draining wounds and purulent-septic foci. The method is provided by dialysis membrane drainage, in the cavity of which an osmoactive polymer gel is exchanged as a dialysis solution. Such drainage provides dehydration of edematous inflammatory tissues and elimination of stagnation of wound exudate, has the ability of transmembrane absorption of toxic substances (vasoactive mediators, toxic metabolites and polypeptides) from the wound, and creates conditions for regional detoxification. At the same time, the introduction of antibacterial drugs into the composition of the dialysate ensures their supply and uniform diffusion from the drainage into the tissues of the pyemic focus to suppress pathogenic microflora. The method simultaneously has an antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, anti-ischemic, detoxifying effect and creates optimal conditions for regenerative processes in the wound focus.

Membrane dialysis drain functions like a miniature artificial kidney, and wound dialysis is essentially an intracorporeal regional detoxification method that prevents intoxication associated with a septic focus. There was a real opportunity to change the usual way of resorption of toxic substances from the pyemic focus into the general circulation in the opposite direction - from the tissues of the septic focus to the cavity of the dialysis membrane drainage.

With abscesses of the liver, kidneys, spleen, lungs, identified using the latest examination methods (computed tomography, ultrasound diagnostics), active surgical tactics are resorted to, up to the removal of the focus. Early drainage of abscesses and retroperitoneal phlegmon also reduces mortality in sepsis.

Significantly reduces the time and improves the results of treatment in controlled abacterial environment and oxybarotherapy, normalizing the oxygen balance of the body and having an inhibitory effect on anaerobes.

Intensive care of sepsis and septic shock

The main areas of intensive care for sepsis and septic shock, based on literature data and our own experience, can be recognized as follows:

1) Early diagnosis and sanitation of the septic focus;

3) Inhibition of the body's hyperergic reaction to aggression;

4) Correction of hemodynamics, taking into account the stage of septic shock;

5) Early respiratory support, as well as the diagnosis and treatment of RDS;

6) Intestinal decontamination;

7) Fight against endotoxicosis and prevention of PON;

8) Correction of blood clotting disorders;

9) Suppression of activity of mediators;

10) Immunotherapy;

11) Hormone therapy;

12) Nutritional Support

13) General care of the septic patient;

14) Symptomatic therapy.

Antibacterial therapy. When using antibacterial agents, it is assumed that pathogenic bacteria are the cause of this case, but the possibility of another infectious onset associated with fungi and viruses should not be overlooked. In most hospitals, cases of sepsis associated with Gr- and Gr+ bacteria, which are part of the normal microflora of the body, are recorded.

Microbiological diagnostics sepsis is decisive in the choice of effective antibiotic therapy regimens. Subject to the requirements for the correct sampling of material, a positive hemiculture in sepsis is detected in 80-90% of cases. Modern methods of blood culture research make it possible to fix the growth of microorganisms within 6-8 hours, and after another 24-48 hours to obtain an accurate identification of the pathogen.

For an adequate microbiological diagnosis of sepsis, the following rules should be observed.

1 . Blood for research should be taken before starting antibiotic therapy. In cases where the patient has already received antibiotics and they cannot be canceled, the blood is taken immediately before the next administration of the drug (at the minimum concentration of the antibiotic in the blood).

2 . Blood for research is taken from a peripheral vein. Do not draw blood from the catheter unless catheter-associated sepsis is suspected.

3 . The required minimum sampling is two samples taken from the veins of different hands with an interval of 30 minutes.

4 . It is more optimal to use standard commercial vials with ready-made culture media, rather than vials closed with laboratory-prepared cotton-gauze stoppers.

5 . Blood sampling from a peripheral vein should be carried out with careful observance of asepsis.

Early antibiotic treatment begins before culture isolation and identification, which is essential for its effectiveness. More than 20 years ago it was shown (B.Kreger et al, 1980) that adequate antibiotic therapy of sepsis at the first stage reduces the risk of death by 50%. Recent studies (Carlos M. Luna, 2000), published at the 10th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, confirmed the validity of this statement in ventilator-associated pneumonia. This is of particular importance in immunocompromised patients, where treatment delays of more than 24 hours can quickly lead to poor outcomes. Immediate empiric parenteral broad-spectrum antibiotics are recommended whenever infection and sepsis are suspected.

The initial choice of initial imperial adequate therapy is one of the most significant factors determining the clinical outcome of the disease. Any delay in starting adequate antibiotic therapy increases the risk of complications and death. This is especially true for severe sepsis. It has been shown that the results of treatment with antibacterial drugs for severe sepsis with multiple organ failure (MOF) are significantly worse than for sepsis without MOF. In this regard, the use of the maximum regimen of antibiotic therapy in patients with severe sepsis should be carried out at the earliest stage of treatment (J. Cohen, W. Lynn. Sepsis, 1998; 2: 101)

In the early phase of treatment choice of antibiotic based on known bacterial susceptibility patterns and situational assumption of infection (empiric therapy regimens). As mentioned above, strains of microorganisms in sepsis are often associated with nosocomial infection.

The correct choice of antimicrobial agents is usually determined by the following factors: a) probable causative agent and its sensitivity to antibiotics , b) the underlying disease and the immune status of the patient, in) pharmacokinetics of antibiotics , G) the severity of the disease, e) assessment of the cost / effectiveness ratio.

Most hospitals the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics and combinations of antibiotics is considered the rule, which ensures their high activity against a wide range of microorganisms before the results of the microbiological study become known (Table 1). The guaranteed broad spectrum of infection suppression is the main reason for such antibiotic therapy. Another argument in favor of using a combination of different types of antibiotics is the reduced likelihood of developing antibiotic resistance during treatment and the presence of synergy, which allows for rapid suppression of the flora. The simultaneous use of several antibiotics in patients with sepsis is justified by many clinical results. When choosing an adequate therapy regimen, one should take into account not only the coverage of all potential pathogens, but also the possibility of participation in the septic process of multi-resistant hospital strains of microorganisms.

Table 1

Empiric therapy for sepsis

*) Note. Vancomycin is added at the second stage of therapy (after 48-72 hours) with the ineffectiveness of the starting regimen; with subsequent inefficiency, an antifungal drug (amphotericin B or fluconazole) is added at the third stage.

Combinations of 3rd generation cephalosporins (ceftriaxone) with aminoglycosides (gentamicin or amikacin) are often used. Other cephalosporins such as cefotaxime and ceftazidime are also widely used. All have good efficacy against many organisms in sepsis in the absence of neutropenia. Ceftriaxone has a long half-life, so it can be used once a day. Antibiotics that have a short half-life should be used at high daily doses. In neutropenic patients, penicillins (mezlocillin) with increased activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa in combination with aminoglycosides, when administered several times a day, are an effective remedy against nosocomial infections. Successfully used to treat sepsis imipenem and carbapenem.

Determination of the optimal antibiotic regimen in patients with sepsis requires studies in large groups of patients. Vancomycin is often used when Gy+ infection is suspected. When determining the sensitivity of antibiotics, therapy can be changed.

Current work focuses on a single application of aminoglycosides 1 time per day in order to reduce their toxicity, for example, ceftriaxone in combination with methylmycin or amikacin and ceftriaxone once a day. Single daily doses of aminoglycosides in combination with long-acting cephalosporins are effective and safe in the treatment of severe bacterial infection.

There are a number of arguments in favor of choosing monotherapy. Its cost, as well as the frequency of adverse reactions, is less. An alternative to combination therapy can be monotherapy with drugs such as carbapenem, imipenem, cilastatin, fluoroquinolones. It is well tolerated and highly effective. Currently, it can be recognized that the most optimal regimen for empiric therapy of severe sepsis with MOF is carbopenems (imipenem, meropenem) as drugs with the widest spectrum of activity, to which the lowest level of resistance of nosocomial strains of gram-negative bacteria is noted. In some cases, cefepime and ciprofloxacin are adequate alternatives to carbopenems. In the case of catheter sepsis, the etiology of which is dominated by staphylococci, reliable results can be obtained from the use of glycopeptides (vancomycin). The drugs of a new class of oxazolidinones (linezolid) are not inferior to vancomycin in activity against Gr+ microorganisms and have similar clinical efficacy.

In cases where it was possible to identify the microflora, the choice of antimicrobial drug becomes direct.(Table 2). It is possible to use monotherapy with antibiotics with a narrow spectrum of action, which increases the percentage of successful treatment.

table 2

Etiotropic therapy of sepsis

In most patients, it is advisable to use for the administration of drugs subclavian vein(especially in septic pneumonia). With a lesion on the lower extremities, in the kidneys, good results are obtained long-term arterial infusion antibiotics.

Drugs must be prescribed in courses of 2-3 weeks in medium and maximum doses, using 2-3 drugs at the same time, administered in various ways (orally, intravenously, intra-arterially). The patient should not be given an antibiotic that has already been used in the last two weeks. To maintain the required concentration of the drug in the body, it is usually administered several times a day (4-8 times). If the lungs are damaged, it is advisable to administer antibiotics intratracheally through a bronchoscope or catheter.

Prescribing antibiotics for septic shock preference should be given to bactericidal drugs. Under conditions of a sharp weakening of the body's defenses, bacteriostatic agents (tetracycline, levomycetin, oleandomycin, etc.) will not be effective.

Worked well in the treatment of sepsis sulfanilamide drugs. It is advisable to use the sodium salt of etazol (1-2 g 2 times a day as a 10% solution intramuscularly or as a 3% solution of 300 ml into a vein drip). However, their side and toxic effects are also known. In this regard, in the presence of modern highly effective antibiotics, sulfa drugs are gradually losing their significance. Drugs used in the treatment of sepsis nitrofuran series- furodonin, furozolidone, and antiseptic dioxidin 1.0-2.0 g / day. Metronidazole has a wide spectrum of activity against spore-forming and non-spore-forming anaerobes, as well as protozoa. However, its hepatotoxicity should be taken into account. It is prescribed intravenously in a dose of 0.5 g every 6-8 hours.

When conducting long-term antibiotic therapy, it is necessary to take into account its negative effects- activation of the kinin system, impaired blood clotting (due to the formation of antibodies to coagulation factors) and immunosuppression (due to inhibition of phagocytosis), the occurrence of superinfection. Therefore, therapy should include antikinin drugs (kontrykal, trasilol, 10-20 thousand units intravenously 2-3 times a day).

For prevention of superinfection(candidiasis , enterocolitis) must be used antimycotic agents (nystatin, levorin, diflucan), eubiotics(mexase, mexaform). Destruction under the influence of antibiotics of normal intestinal microflora can lead to beriberi, tk. intestinal bacteria are producers of vitamins of group "B" and partly of group "K". Therefore, along with antibiotics, be sure to prescribe vitamins.

With antibiotic therapy, it is necessary to remember such a possible complication as exacerbation reaction, which is associated with increased breakdown of microbial bodies and the release of microbial endotoxins. Clinically, it is characterized by agitation, sometimes delirium, fever. Therefore, you should not start antibiotic treatment with so-called shock doses. Of great importance for the prevention of these reactions is the combination of antibiotics with sulfonamides, which adsorb microbial toxins well. In severe cases of endotoxemia, one has to resort to extracorporeal (outside the patient's body) detoxification.

Detoxification (detoxification) therapy

The progressive development of a surgical infection from a clinical point of view is, first of all, an increasing intoxication of the body, which is based on the development of severe microbial toxemia.

Under endogenous intoxication means the intake from the focus and the accumulation in the body of various toxic substances, the nature and nature of which is determined by the process. These are intermediate and end products of normal metabolism, but at elevated concentrations (lactate, pyruvate, urea, creatinine, bilirubin), products of unlimited proteolysis, hydrolysis of glycoproteins, lipoproteins, phospholipids, enzymes of the coagulation, fibrinolytic, kallikriinkin system, antibodies, inflammatory mediators, biogenic amines, waste products and decay of normal, opportunistic and pathogenic microflora.

From the pathological focus, these substances enter the blood, lymph, interstitial fluid and spread their influence to all organs and tissues of the body. Especially severe endotoxicosis occurs with septic multiple organ failure. in the stage of decompensation of the internal detoxification mechanisms of the body's defense. Violation of the liver function is associated with the failure of the natural mechanisms of internal detoxification, kidney failure implies the failure of the excretory system, etc.

There is no doubt that the primary measure in the treatment of endotoxicosis should be the sanitation of the source and the prevention of the ingress of toxins from the primary affect. Intoxication is reduced already as a result of opening and draining the purulent focus, due to the removal of pus along with microbial toxins, enzymes, tissue decay products, and biologically active chemical compounds.

However, practice shows that when severe eudotoxicosis, the elimination of the etiological factor does not solve the problem, since autocatalytic processes, including more and more vicious circles, contribute to the progression of endogenous intoxication, even with the primary source completely eliminated. At the same time, traditional (routine) methods of treatment are not able to break the pathogenetic links of severe endotoxicosis. The most pathogenetically justified in such a situation are the methods of influence aimed at removing toxins from the body, which should be used against the background of a full range of traditional therapy aimed at correcting all detected disorders.

An integrated approach to the treatment of severe forms of surgical infection includes conservative and active surgical methods of detoxification. Degree of endotoxemia is determined, including the clinical picture, by monitoring changes in metabolism - the content of blood electrolytes, residual nitrogen, urea, creatinine, bilirubin and its fractions, enzymes. Toxemia is usually characterized by: hyperazotemia, hypercreatinemia, bilirubinemia, hyperkalemia, hyperfermentemia, acidemia, renal failure.

Complex detoxification methods for sepsis

In the early period of toxemia, with preserved diuresis, conservative methods of detoxification are used, including hemodilution, correction of acid-base balance, water-electrolyte metabolism, and forced diuresis.

hemodilution carried out by infusion of 10% albumin solution 3 ml/kg, protein 5-6 ml/kg , rheopolyglucin or neogemodez 6-8 ml / kg, as well as solutions of crystalloids and glucose 5-10-20% - 10-15 ml / kg with the inclusion of antiplatelet agents that simultaneously improve microcirculation by reducing peripheral vascular resistance (heparin, chimes, trental). Hemodilution up to a hematocrit of 27-28% should be considered safe.

It should be noted that a decrease in the concentration and excretory function of the kidneys limits the possibilities of conservative detoxification methods, because. with inadequate diuresis, hyperhydration may occur. Hemodilution is usually carried out in the stage of oliguria.

Against the background of hemodilution, to enhance the effectiveness of detoxification of the patient's blood, forced diuresis. Stimulation of diuresis is carried out with the help of water load using 10-20% glucose solutions, alkalization of blood by introducing 200-300 ml of 4% sodium bicarbonate solution and lasix up to 200-300 mg per day. With preserved diuresis, manitol 1 g / kg, 2.4% solution of eufilin up to 20 ml, dalargin up to 2-4 ml are used. In order to reduce blood clotting, increase hepatic blood flow and prevent platelet aggregation, patients are prescribed papaverine, trental, instenon, chimes, no-shpu, nicotinic acid; for the prevention and elimination of capillary permeability disorders - ascorbic acid, diphenhydramine.

During the day, patients are usually injected with 2000-2500 ml of various solutions. The number of solutions administered intravenously and enterally is strictly controlled taking into account diuresis, fluid loss during vomiting, diarrhea, perspiration and hydration indicators (auscultation and radiography of the lungs, hematocrit, CVP, bcc).

Enterosorption

It is based on oral dosed intake of the sorbent by 1 tablespoon 3-4 times a day. The most active means of enterosorption include enterodez, enterosorb and various grades of coal. Their use with intact bowel function provides an artificial enhancement of the processes of elimination of low- and medium-molecular substances from the circulating blood, which helps to neutralize and reduce the absorption of toxins from the gastrointestinal tract. The greatest detoxification effect is achieved with the combined use of enterodesis and intravenously - neogemodesis.

Of great importance for reducing toxicosis is the strengthening of the processes of destruction of toxins in the body, which is achieved by the activation of oxidative processes (oxygen therapy, hyperbaric oxygenation). Significantly weakens the resorption of toxins from the pyemic focus of local hypothermia.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy

An effective method of combating local and general hypoxia in endotoxicosis is the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO), which improves microcirculation in organs and tissues, as well as central and organ hemodynamics. The therapeutic effect of HBO is based on a significant increase in the oxygen capacity of body fluids, which allows you to quickly increase the oxygen content in cells that suffer from hypoxia as a result of severe endotoxicosis. HBO increases the performance of humoral factors of nonspecific protection, stimulates an increase in the number of T- and B-lymphocytes, while the content of immunoglobulins significantly increases.

To surgical methods of detoxification should include all modern dialysis-filtration, sorption and plasmapheretic methods of extracorporeal hemocorrection in endotoxicosis. All these methods are based on the removal of toxins and metabolites of various masses and properties directly from the blood, and allow for the reduction of endogenous intoxication. Surgical detoxification methods include:

1. Hemodialysis, ultrahemofiltration, hemodiafiltration.
2. Hemosorption, lymphosorption; immunosorption.
3. Therapeutic plasmapheresis.
4. Xenosplenoperfusion.
5. Xenohepatoperfusion.
6. Flowing ultraviolet irradiation of autologous blood.
7. Extracorporeal hemooxygenation.
8. Laser irradiation of autoblood.
9. Peritoneal dialysis.

The main indication for the use of surgical detoxification methods is to determine the degree of toxicity of blood, lymph and urine with a high content of substances with an average molecular weight (over 0.800 conventional units), as well as the level of urea up to 27.6 nmol / l, creatinine up to 232.4 nmol / l, a sharp increase in the content of blood enzymes (ALT, AST, lactate dehydrogenase, cholinesterase, alkaline phosphatase, aldolase), metabolic or mixed acidosis, oligoanuria or anuria.

When planning extracorporeal hemocorrection for endotoxicosis, it must be taken into account that different methods of extracorporeal detoxification have different directions of action. This is the basis for their combined use, when the capabilities of one of them are not enough to obtain a quick therapeutic effect. Hemodialysis removes electrolytes and low molecular weight substances. Ultrafiltration methods also remove liquid and medium molecular weight toxins. The nondialyzability of toxic substances through semipermeable membranes is the basis for the use of sorption detoxification methods, which are aimed at removing mainly medium and high molecular weight substances. With high toxicity of blood plasma, the combination of hemodiafiltration and sorption methods with therapeutic plasmapheresis seems to be the most reasonable.

Hemodialysis (HD)

Hemodialysis is carried out using the device "artificial kidney". Dialysis is a process in which substances in solution are separated due to unequal diffusion rates through the membrane, since membranes have different permeability for substances with different molecular weights (membrane semipermeability, dialysability of substances).

In any embodiment, the "artificial kidney" includes the following elements: a semi-permeable membrane, on one side of which the patient's blood flows, and on the other side - saline dialysis solution. The heart of the "artificial kidney" is the dialyzer, in which the semi-permeable membrane plays the role of a "molecular sieve" that separates substances depending on their molecular size. The membranes used for dialysis have almost the same pore size of 5-10 nm and therefore only small molecules that are not bound to protein Anticoagulants are used in the device to prevent blood clotting.In this case, due to transmembrane diffusion processes, the concentration of low-molecular compounds (ions, urea, creatinine, glucose and other substances with a small molecular weight) in the blood is equalized and dialysate, which provides extrarenal blood purification.With an increase in the diameter of the pores of the semipermeable membrane, the movement of substances with a higher molecular weight occurs.With the help of hemodialysis, it is possible to eliminate hyperkalemia, azotemia and acidosis.

The operation of hemodialysis is very complex, requiring expensive and complex equipment, a sufficient number of trained medical personnel and the presence of special "kidney centers".

It should be borne in mind that in practice, with endotoxicosis, the situation often develops in such a way that toxins and cell decay products mainly bind to proteins, forming a strong chemical complex that is difficult to remove. One hemodialysis in such cases, as a rule, cannot solve all problems.

Ultrafiltration (UV)

This is a process of separation and fractionation of solutions, in which macromolecules are separated from the solution and low molecular weight compounds by filtration through membranes. Blood filtration, performed as an emergency measure for pulmonary and cerebral edema, allows you to quickly remove up to 2000-2500 ml of fluid from the body. With UV, fluid is removed from the blood by creating a positive hydrostatic pressure in the dialyzer by partially clamping the venous line or by creating a negative pressure on the outer surface of the membrane in the dialyzer. The filtration process under increased hydrostatic blood pressure mimics the natural process of glomerular filtration, since the renal glomeruli function as an elementary blood ultrafilter.

Hemofiltration (GF)

It is carried out against the background of intravenous administration of various solutions for 3-5 hours. In a short period of time (up to 60 minutes), it is possible to carry out active dehydration of the body through excretion of up to 2500 ml of ultrafiltrate. The resulting ultrafiltrate is replaced with Ringer's solution, glucose and plasma-substituting solutions.

The indication for HF is uremic intoxication, unstable hemodynamics, severe hyperhydration. According to vital indications (collapse, anuria), HF is sometimes carried out continuously for 48 hours or more with a fluid deficit of up to 1-2 liters. In the process of continuous long-term HF, the activity of blood flow through the hemofilter ranges from 50 to 100 ml/min. The rate of blood filtration and replacement ranges from 500 to 2000 ml per hour.

UV and GF methods are most often used as resuscitation measures in patients with endotoxic shock in a state of severe hyperhydration.

Hemodiafiltration /GDF/

With enhanced detoxification, dehydration and correction of homeostasis, hemodiafiltration is used, combining simultaneous hemodialysis and hemofiltration. Dilution of blood with isotonic glucose-salt solution, followed by ultrafiltration reconcentration to the same volume, makes it possible to reduce the concentration of plasma impurities, regardless of molecular size. Clearance for urea, creatinine, medium molecules is the highest with this method of detoxification. The clinical effect consists in the most pronounced detoxification and dehydration of the body, correction of the water and electrolyte composition of the blood, acid-base balance, normalization of gas exchange, the system for regulating the aggregate state of the blood, indicators of central and peripheral hemodynamics and the central nervous system.

"Dry dialysis"

In this case, hemodialysis usually begins with an increase in transmembrane pressure in the dialyzer without circulation of dialysate. After the required amount of fluid has been removed from the patient, the transmembrane pressure is reduced to a minimum and the dialysate flow is turned on. In the remaining time, thus, metabolites are excreted from the body without removing water. Isolated ultrafiltration can also be performed at the end of dialysis or in the middle of the procedure, but the first scheme is most effective. With this method of conducting hemodialysis, it is usually possible to fully dehydrate the patient, lower blood pressure and avoid collapse or hypertensive crisis at the end of dialysis.

"Artificial Placenta"

This is a method of hemodialysis in which the blood from one patient passes through one side of the membrane, while the other patient sends his blood to the same membrane, only from the opposite side. Any small molecule toxins or metabolites can be transferred between subjects, one of which is sick, without crossing elements of the immune-chemical system of each patient. In this way, a patient with acute reversible failure can be supported during the critical period with dialysis blood from a healthy donor with well-functioning natural internal detoxification mechanisms (eg, a healthy mother can support her child).

Hemosorption

Hemoperfusion through activated charcoal (hemocarboperfusion) is an effective method of detoxification of the body, imitating the antitoxic function of the liver.

Blood perfusion is usually carried out using a roller-type pump through a column (devices UAG-01, AGUP-1M, etc.) filled with a sterile sorbent. For this, uncoated activated carbons of the IGI, ADB brands are used; BAU, AR-3, GSU, SKN, SKN-1K, SKN-2K, SKN-4M; sorbents with synthetic coating SUTS, SKN-90, SKT-6, FAS, fibrous sorbent "Aktilen" and others.

Hemosorbents have a high absorption capacity for a wide range of toxic products. They absorb and selectively remove bilirubin, waste nitrogen, uric acid, ammonia, bile acids, phenols, creatinine, potassium and ammonium from the body. The coating of carbon sorbents with materials compatible with blood significantly reduces the trauma of formed elements and reduces the sorption of blood proteins.

The column with the sorbent is connected to the patient's circulatory system using an arteriovenous shunt. For external shunting, the radial artery and the most developed branch of the lateral and medial saphenous vein in the lower third of the forearm are usually used.

Heparinization is carried out at the rate of 500 IU of heparin per 1 kg of patient weight with neutralization of residual heparin with protamine sulfate.

One hemosorption session usually lasts from 45 minutes to two hours. The speed of hemoperfusion through a column with a sorbent (volume 250 ml) is 80-100 ml/min, the volume of perfused blood is 1-2 BCC (10-12 liters) for 30-40 minutes. The interval between hemosorption sessions is 7 days or more.

Bile acids, phonols, amino acids, and enzymes are also sorbed. The potassium level during 45 minutes of hemocarboperfusion decreases from 8 to 5 meq/l, which significantly reduces the risk of toxic effects of hyperkalemia on the heart and prevents intraventricular blockade, cardiac arrest in the diastolic phase.

It must be taken into account that hemosorption is accompanied by trauma to blood cells - the number of erythrocytes, leukocytes, and especially platelets decreases. Other complications of hemosorption are also possible. For critically ill patients, this is a risky procedure.

Lymphosorption

Drain the thoracic lymphatic duct (lymphatic drainage). The lymph is collected in a sterile vial and returned to the bloodstream by gravity, passing through a column with a sorbent (the volume of SKN coal is 400 ml), or a roller perfusion pump of the UAG-01 apparatus is used. The use of the device allows in a short time to perform a 2-3-fold perfusion of lymph through the sorbent along a closed circulation circuit and thereby increase the detoxification effect of lymphosorption. Usually spend 2-3 sessions of lymphosorption.

Immunosorption

Immunosorption refers to extracorporeal methods of immunocorrection and detoxification.

We are talking about new generation sorbents, the development of which has just begun, but their possibilities are extremely wide. With this type of hemosorption, the blood is purified from pathological proteins in an extracorporeal circuit containing an immunosorbent (selective sorption). Activated carbon, porous silica, glass and other granular macroporous polymers are used as carriers for binding biologically active substances.

Immunosorbents are antigen (AG) or antibody (AT) fixed on an insoluble matrix as an affinity ligand. Upon contact with blood, AG fixed on sorbents binds the corresponding AT contained in it; in the case of AT fixation, the binding of complementary antigens occurs. The specificity of the interaction between AG and AT is extremely high and is realized at the level of correspondence of the active fragments of the AG molecule to a certain part of the AT macromolecule, which is included in it, like a key in a lock. A specific AG-AT complex is formed.

Modern technology makes it possible to obtain antibodies against almost any compound that is to be extracted from biological media. At the same time, low molecular weight substances that do not have antigenic properties are no exception.

Antibody immunosorbents are used for selective extraction of microbial toxins from the blood. The extremely high cost of immunosorbents will probably limit the practical use of immunosorption.

Therapeutic plasmapheresis (PF)

The term "apheresis" (Greek) means - removal, taking away, taking. Plasmapheresis provides separation of plasma from formed elements without injury to the latter and is currently the most promising method of detoxification in the treatment of critical conditions. The method allows to remove from the blood pathogens and toxins, which are protein macromolecules, as well as other toxic compounds dissolved in blood plasma. Plasmapheresis allows you to detoxify (sorption, UVR, ILBI, sedimentation) only blood plasma, returning the formed blood cells to the patient.

Most commonly used discrete (fractional) centrifugal plasmapheresis. At the same time, blood is exfused from the subclavian vein into the Gemacon-500 polymer container with a preservative. The taken blood is centrifuged at 2000 rpm in a K-70 or TsL-4000 centrifuge for 10 minutes. The plasma is removed from the container. Erythrocytes are washed twice in 0.9% sodium chloride solution in a centrifuge for 5 minutes at 2000 rpm. The washed red blood cells are returned to the patient's bloodstream. Plasma substitution is carried out with gemodez, rheopolyglucin, native donor single-group plasma and other infusion media.

During the procedure, up to 1200-2000 ml of plasma is removed in 2-2.5 hours, i.e. 0.7-1.0 BCC. The volume of plasma to be replaced must be greater than that to be removed. Fresh frozen plasma is able to quickly restore BCC and oncotic pressure. It is a supplier of various blood coagulation factors, immunoglobulins, and is recognized as the most valuable physiological product. Usually, the patient undergoes 3-4 PF operations at intervals of a day, with replacement not with physiological saline, but with freshly frozen donor plasma.

The clinical effect of PF consists in a detoxifying effect - toxic metabolites, medium and large molecular weight toxins, microbial bodies, creatinine, urea, and others are eliminated (removed, removed) from the body.

Plasmapheresis using blood separators

Plasmapheresis is carried out on the device "Amnico" (USA) or other similar devices for 2-3 hours. Blood is taken from the subclavian vein. The optimal rate of blood withdrawal is 50-70 ml/min. Centrifugation speed 800-900 rpm. In one procedure, 500-2000 ml of plasma is removed. The isolated plasma is replaced with 10-20% albumin solution in the amount of 100-400 ml, 400 ml of rheopolyglucin solution, 0.9% sodium chloride solution 400-1200. With good contouring of the peripheral veins, the cubital vein is punctured and blood is returned to it.

Saccular plasmapheresis

It is produced using Gemacon-500/300 containers. Blood is withdrawn from the cubital vein into a plastic container with a volume of 530-560 ml. Blood centrifugation is carried out at 2000 rpm for 30 minutes. Then the plasma is removed, and 50 ml of isotonic sodium chloride solution with 5000 IU of heparin is added to the cell suspension and injected into the patient. During the procedure, 900-1500 ml of plasma is removed from the patient, which is replaced fractionally at the time of blood centrifugation with 10-20% albumin solution in the amount of 100-300 ml, rheopolyglucin solution 400 ml , 0.9% sodium chloride solution 400-1200 ml.

Saccular cryoplasmapheresis

Plasma is collected in sterile 300 ml bags. 50 ml of isotonic sodium chloride solution is added to the remaining cell suspension and injected into the patient.

The separated plasma is stored at a temperature of 4C for 24 hours, and then the cryoproteins (cryogel) formed in it in the presence of heparin and with a decrease in temperature are precipitated at 3000 rpm for 20 minutes also at a temperature of 4C. Plasma is taken into sterile vials and frozen at -18C until the next procedure, when it is returned to the patient without cryoproteins and other pathological products (fibronectin, cryoprecipitins, fibrinogen, immune complexes, etc.). During one procedure, 900-1500 ml of plasma is removed, which is replaced with the patient's frozen plasma prepared in the previous procedure.

cryoplasmosorption

The procedure of cryoplasmapheresis, in which the extracted plasma, cooled to 4 0 C, is passed through 2-3 columns with hemosorbent with a volume of 150-200 ml each, and then heated to 37C and returned to the patient. Cryoproteins and other material adsorbed on activated carbon are removed. In total, 2000-3500 ml of plasma is passed through the hemosorbent during the procedure.

The disadvantages of plasmapheresis are well known. Together with plasma, immunoglobulins, hormones and other biologically active compounds necessary for the body are given. This must be taken into account in patients diagnosed with sepsis. But usually 2-4 sessions of plasmapheresis lead to a steady improvement in the patient's condition.

Membrane plasmapheresis

Requires careful selection of the hemofilter dialysis membrane, namely the pore size. All toxic compounds have different molecular weights and require sufficient pore size in the membrane for their elimination. Plasmapheresis membranes have pores from 0.2 to 0.65 µm , which ensures the passage of water, electrolytes and all plasma proteins and at the same time prevents the passage of cellular elements. The use of membranes with pores of 0.07 microns makes it possible to preserve albumins and immunoglobulins in the body during plasmapheresis.

Xenosplenoperfusion

Refers to extracorporeal methods of immunocorrection and detoxification. In the scientific literature, the method has various names - extracorporeal connection of a donor / porcine / spleen (EPDS), biosorption, xenosorption, splenosorption,. hemosorption on the spleen, detoxification therapy with xenospleen and others.

This is a priority method for the treatment of acute and chronic sepsis with the help of a short-term extracorporeal connection of the xenospleen to the patient's blood vessels. Usually, in case of sepsis, complex detoxification (after sessions of hemosorption with membrane oxygenation, UVR autoblood, ILBI, plasmapheresis) is included in complex detoxification to correct severe immunodeficiency on days 4-6.

The porcine spleen has found application as a powerful organ of immunological defense. Sterile, washed from the blood of the animal with saline, it not only actively absorbs microbes and toxins, but also releases biologically active substances into the purified blood of the patient, stimulating the mechanisms of immune defense.

The patient's blood is pumped by a perfusion pump through the vessels of the xenospleen for 40 minutes through a veno-venous shunt (subclavian vein - cubital vein). The rate of hemoperfusion through the biological filter is usually 30-40 ml/min. A good effect of using xenospleen gives only in combination with conventional intensive therapy.

Extracorporeal perfusion of xenospleen sections

To avoid some complications during hemoperfusion through the organ (extravasates, blood loss, etc.), this method of immunocorrection and detoxification is used. Spleen sampling is carried out at a meat processing plant from healthy outbred pigs. In the operating room under sterile conditions, sections 2-4 mm thick are made, followed by washing from blood in 1.5-2 liters of saline at a temperature of 18-20C. Sections are placed in a bottle with two droppers for recirculating washing in 400 ml of saline with the addition of 2000 IU of heparin. Then the perfusion system is connected to the patient's vessels. The shunt is usually veno-venous. The rate of blood flow through the biosorbent is 80-100 ml/min for 0.5-1 hour.

Xenohepatoperfusion

The method is indicated for acute liver failure to maintain a deranged liver function and detoxify the body.

An extracorporeal perfusion system is used using isolated live hepatocytes in the apparatus "auxiliary liver" (AVP). Isolated viable hepatocytes are obtained by the enzyme-mechanical method from the liver of healthy piglets weighing 18-20 kg in an amount of up to 400 ml of a dense suspension.

The AVP is connected to the catheterized subclavian veins. The PF-0.5 rotor separates whole blood into plasma and cellular fraction. The plasma enters the oxygenator-heat exchanger, where it is saturated with oxygen and warmed up to 37C; the plasma then contacts the hepatocytes. After contact with isolated hepatocytes, the plasma combines with the cellular fraction of the blood and returns to the patient's body. The rate of perfusion through AVP for blood is 30-40 ml/min, for plasma 15-20 ml/min. Perfusion time from 5 to 7.5 hours.

Hepatocytes in extracorporeal artificial perfusion supporting systems perform all hepatic functions, they are functionally active to well-known metabolites: ammonia, urea, glucose, bilirubin, "liver toxin".

Flowing ultraviolet irradiation of autologous blood

An effective transfusiological operation (autotransfusion of photomodified blood - AUFOK) is used to reduce endotoxemia and stimulate the body's defenses.

With the help of Izolda, FMK-1, FMR-10. BMP-120 for 5 minutes at a blood flow rate of 100-150 ml/min irradiate the patient's blood with UV light in a thin layer and under sterile conditions. Blood is irradiated in a volume of 1-2 ml/kg. Typically, the course of treatment includes 3-5 sessions, depending on the severity of the patient's condition and the severity of the therapeutic effect. In the conditions of FMK-1, one session is enough.

Reinfusion of photomodified blood is a powerful factor influencing the body and its immune homeostasis. The effect of UV-irradiated autoblood on the body is being intensively studied. The experience already available has shown that UVR of autoblood promotes an increase in the number of lymphocytes, activates redox processes, immune cellular and humoral defense reactions; has bactericidal, detoxifying and anti-inflammatory action. It is the positive effect on the indicators of cellular immunity that predetermines the inclusion of the autologous blood ultraviolet irradiation method in the complex treatment of sepsis.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)

It is a method of assisted oxygenation based on the partial replacement of natural lung function. It is used as a method of intensive treatment of acute respiratory failure (ARF), with hypercapnia under conditions of intensive ventilation, and with multiple organ failure.

Various membrane oxygenators ("membrane lung") of a stationary type are used, which are connected to the arterial line of the heart-lung machine for long-term auxiliary oxygenation.

The principle of the membrane oxygenator (MO) is based on the diffusion of oxygen through a gas-permeable membrane into the patient's blood. Blood is perfused through thin-walled membrane tubes, which are fixed in plastic cylinders purged with oxygen according to the counterflow principle.

Indications for the beginning of ECMO - a decrease in PaO 2 below 50 mm Hg. Art. in patients with ARF of polyetiological origin, and as a resuscitation measure in the treatment of terminal respiratory and circulatory disorders in hypoxic coma (PaO 2 below 33 mm Hg). In all patients, as a result of ECMO, it is possible to significantly increase PaO 2 .

Low flow membrane oxygenation (MO)

Currently, in addition to the treatment of ARF, the field of application of blood oxygenation in small volumes and in other very diverse situations is being formed. Short-term perfusion with MO blood in small volumes can be used:

1. as an independent method for improving the rheological characteristics of blood, activating phagocytosis, detoxification, immunocorrection, non-specific stimulation of the body;

2. in combination with other perfusion methods - improvement of oxygen transport during hemosorption, oxygenation of erythrocytes and improvement of their rheological properties during plasmapheresis, oxygenation of plasma, lymph and hepatocytes in the apparatus "auxiliary liver"; oxygenation of blood and plasma when connecting isolated donor organs, for example, xenospleen, activation by ultraviolet irradiation of blood, etc.;

3. regional MMO - lung perfusion in ARF, liver perfusion in acute liver failure (ARF).

In the clinic, MMO is successfully used to combat endotoxicosis. Hypoxia is known to impair hepatic circulation and reduce the detoxifying function of the liver. With blood pressure not exceeding 80 mm Hg. Art., necrosis of hepatocytes occurs within 3 hours. In this situation, extracorporeal oxygenation of the portal system of the liver is very promising.

In this case, a capillary hemodialyzer of an artificial kidney is used for blood oxygenation. Instead of dialysis fluid, gaseous oxygen is supplied to the column. The perfusion system with a dialyzer is connected to the patient's vessels according to the scheme: superior vena cava - portal vein. The volumetric blood flow rate in the system is maintained within 100-200 ml/min. The level of pO 2 at the outlet of the oxygenator is on average 300 mm Hg, Art. The method allows you to maintain and restore frustrated liver function.

Intravascular laser irradiation of autologous blood (ILBI)

For the purpose of nonspecific immunostimulation, laser irradiation of the patient's blood (GNL - helium-neon laser) is performed. For ILBI, a physiotherapeutic laser unit ULF-01 is used, which has an active element GL-109 and an optical nozzle with a thin monofilament light guide inserted into the subclavian catheter or through an injection needle after venipuncture. The duration of the first and last sessions is 30 minutes, the rest - 45 minutes (usually 5-10 sessions per course of treatment).

ILBI promotes the activation of the immune response, gives a pronounced analgesic, anti-inflammatory and hypocoagulant effect, increases the phagocytic activity of leukocytes.

Thus, the existing methods of extracorporeal hemocorrection are able to temporarily replace the functions of the most important body systems - respiratory (oxygenation), excretory (dialysis, filtration), detoxification (sorption, apheresis, xenohepatoperfusion), immunocompetent (xenosplenoperfusion). mononuclear-macrophage (immunosorption).

Given the multicomponent nature of severe endotoxicosis, in generalized severe sepsis and, especially, in septic shock, only the combined use of existing detoxification methods can be the most pathogenetically justified.

It must be remembered that dialysis, sorption, plasmapheretic methods of extracorporeal detoxification affect only one of the components of endotoxicosis - toxemia, and with the centralization of blood circulation limited to correction of circulating, but not deposited and sequestered blood. The last problem is partially solved by performing before detoxifying hemocorrection pharmacological decentralization of blood circulation or sequential use of ILBI, UVI autologous blood and methods of extracorporeal detoxification (see the lecture "Thermal injury", in volume 1 of this monograph).

Peritoneal dialysis (PD)

This is a method of accelerated detoxification of the body. The presence in the body of natural semi-permeable membranes, such as the peritoneum, pleura, pericardium, bladder, basal membrane of the glomeruli of the kidneys and even the uterus, has long made it possible to raise the question of the possibility and expediency of their use for extrarenal cleansing of the body. Various methods of cleansing the body by washing the stomach and intestines are also based on the principle of dialysis and are well known.

Of course, many of the methods listed above (pleurodialysis, uterine dialysis, etc.) are only of historical interest, but the use of peritoneal dialysis, the so-called peritoneal dialysis, is successfully developing at the present time, sometimes competing in a number of parameters with hemodialysis or surpassing last.

However, this method is also not without significant drawbacks (first of all, the possibility of developing peritonitis). Peritoneal dialysis is cheaper than hemodialysis, and many other detoxification methods. The exchange through the peritoneum is also more efficient in terms of removing a wider range of metabolites from the patient's body than is the case with other methods of extrarenal cleansing. The peritoneum is able to remove harmful toxic substances (products of protein-free nitrogen, urea, potassium, phosphorus, etc.) from the body into the dialysis fluid injected into the abdominal cavity. Peritoneal dipalis also makes it possible to introduce the necessary salt solutions and medicinal substances into the body.

In recent years, peritoneal dialysis has been widely used in surgical practice in the treatment of diffuse purulent peritonitis, i.e. local dialysis directly in the septic focus. The method of directed abdominal dialysis makes it possible to correct violations of water-salt metabolism, sharply reduce intoxication by removing toxins from the abdominal cavity, washing out bacteria, removing bacterial enzymes, and removing exudate.

There are two types of PD:

I/ continuous (flow) PD, performed through 2-4 rubber tubes inserted into the abdominal cavity. Sterile dialysis solution is continuously perfused through the abdominal cavity at a flow rate of 1-2 l/hour;

2/ fractional (intermittent) PD - the introduction into the abdominal cavity of a portion of the dialysis solution with its change after 45-60 minutes.

As a dialysis solution, isotonic saline solutions are used, balanced in blood plasma, with antibiotics and novocaine. To prevent fibrin deposition, 1000 units of heparin are added. The possibility of overhydration with overload of the heart and pulmonary edema due to the absorption of water into the blood is dangerous. Strict control over the amount of injected and withdrawn fluid is needed.

The dialysate includes sodium bicarbonate or sodium acetate, which is characterized by buffering properties, and allows you to keep the pH within the required limits throughout the entire dialysis, ensuring the regulation of acid-base balance. Adding 20-50 g of glucose with insulin to the solution makes it possible to dehydrate. It is possible to withdraw up to 1-1.5 liters of resorbed liquid. However, only 12-15% of toxic substances are removed.

The use of albumin in the composition of dialysate significantly increases the efficiency of PD. The process of non-specific sorption of toxic substances on the protein macromolecule is switched on, which makes it possible to maintain a significant concentration gradient between the plasma and the dialysis solution until the adsorbent surface is completely saturated ("protein dialysis").

Of great importance for the successful implementation of PD is the osmolarity of the dialysis fluid. The osmotic pressure of the extracellular fluid and blood plasma is 290-310 mosm/l, so the osmotic pressure of the dialysate should be at least 370-410 mosm/l. The temperature of the dialysate should be 37-38C. 5000 IU of heparin are injected into each liter of the solution, up to 10 million IU of penicillin or other antibacterial agents are injected into the solution to prevent infection.

The use of extracorporeal detoxification methods is indicated against the background of hemodynamic stabilization. In the early stages of septic shock, it is possible to carry out hemosorption or prolonged low-flow hemofiltration, in the future, it is possible to use plasmapheresis in combination with other methods of physiohemotherapy (ILBI).

The main goal in the treatment of SIRS is control of the inflammatory response. Nearly 100 years ago, doctors discovered that it was possible to weaken the body's response to certain foreign substances by reintroducing them. Based on this, injections of killed bacteria were used as vaccines with various types of fever. Apparently, this technique can be used for the purpose of prophylaxis in patients at risk of developing SIRS. For example, there are recommendations to use injections of monophosphoryl lipid-A (MPL), a derivative of Gr-endotoxin, as one of the methods of prevention. When using this technique in an experiment in animals, a decrease in hemodynamic effects was noted in response to the introduction of endotoxin.

At one time it was suggested that the use corticosteroids should be of benefit in sepsis, as they may reduce the inflammatory response in cases of SIRS, which may improve outcome. However, these hopes were not justified. Careful clinical testing at two large centers found no beneficial effects of steroids in septic shock. This issue is highly debatable. It can be said that in our current state of drug supply, we simply do not have other drugs to stabilize and reduce membrane permeability. TNF antagonists, monoclonal antibodies, antagonists to IL-1 receptors, etc. are being tested and introduced into practice. However, control over the activity of mediators is probably a matter of the future. Much remains to be explored and put into practice.

Taking into account the hyperergic reaction of the sympathetic-adrenal system and adrenal glands, the violation of the cytokine balance of the body with a powerful release of a large number of mediators in response to aggression, and as a result, the imbalance of all links of homeostasis, it is necessary to use methods to block or compensate for the above processes. One of these methods is antistress therapy (AST).

It is fundamentally important to start the use of AST in septic patients as early as possible, before the development of cytokine cascade reactions and refractory hypotension, then these extreme manifestations of the body's reaction to aggression may be prevented. The AST method developed by us involves the combined use of an A 2 -adrenergic receptor agonist clonidine, neuropeptide dalargin and calcium antagonist isoptine. The use of AST is advisable in patients whose condition severity is more than 11 points according to APACNE II, as well as with concomitant ulcerative lesions of the gastrointestinal tract, hyperacid gastritis, repeated sanitation of the abdominal cavity (it does not replace antibacterial, immunocorrective, detoxification and other therapy; however, against its background, they efficiency increases).

It should be started as early as possible: with intramuscular premedication if the patient enters the operating room, or with the start of intensive care in the ward. The patient is sequentially injected with A 2 -adrenergic agonist clonidine - 150 - 300 mcg / day, or the ganglioblocker pentamine - 100 mg / day, the neurotransmitter dalargin - 4 mg / day, the calcium antagonist - isoptin (nimotop, dilzem) - 15 mg / day .

An integral component of intensive care for sepsis is supportive circulatory therapy especially in the development of septic shock syndrome. The pathogenesis of arterial hypotension in septic shock continues to be studied. First of all, it is associated with the development of the phenomenon of mosaic tissue perfusion and accumulation in various organs and tissues, or vasoconstrictors(thromboxane A2, leukotrienes, catecholamines, angiotensin II , endothelin), or vasodilators(NO-relaxing factor, cytokinins, prostaglandins, platelet activating factor, fibronectins, lysosomal enzymes, serotonin, histamine).

In the early stages of development septic shock(hyperdynamic stage), the effects of vasodilators in the vessels of the skin and skeletal muscles prevail, which is manifested by high cardiac output, reduced vascular resistance, hypotension with warm skin. However, already in this situation, vasoconstriction of the hepatic-renal and splenic zones begins to develop. The hypodynamic stage of septic shock is associated with the prevalence of vasoconstriction in all vascular zones, which leads to a sharp increase in vascular resistance, a decrease in cardiac output, a total decrease in tissue perfusion, sustained hypotension and MOF.

Attempts to correct circulatory disorders should be made as soon as possible under strict control for the parameters of central, peripheral hemodynamics and volemia.

The first remedy in this situation is usually volume replenishment. If pressure continues to be low after volume replenishment, cardiac output is increased by dopamine or dobutamine. If hypotension persists, correction can be made adrenaline. A decrease in the sensitivity of adrenergic receptors occurs in various forms of shock, so optimal doses of sympathomimetics should be used. As a result of stimulation of alpha- and beta-adrenergic and dopaminergic receptors, an increase in cardiac output (beta-adrenergic effect), an increase in vascular resistance (alpha-adrenergic effect) and blood flow to the kidneys (dopaminergic effect) occurs. The adrenergic vasopressor effect of epinephrine may be required in patients with persistent hypotension on dopamine or in those who respond only to high doses. With refractory hypotension, the use of NO-factor antagonists is possible. This effect has methylene blue (3-4 mg / kg).

It should be noted that the above scheme for the treatment of septic shock is not always effective. In this case, it is necessary again carefully evaluate objective hemodynamic parameters and volemia (cardiac output, VR, CVP, PSS, BCC, blood pressure, heart rate), to accurately orient in the existing hemodynamic disorders (cardiac, vascular insufficiency, hypo- or hypervolemia, combined disorders) and to correct intensive care in a particular patient in a specific time period (inotropic drugs, vasoplegia, vasopressors, infusion media, etc.). Should always be considered reperfusion syndrome that occurs during the treatment of a septic patient and it is imperative to use inhibitors of biologically active substances (BAS) and methods for neutralizing or removing endotoxins (sodium bicarbonate, proteolysis inhibitors, extracorporeal detoxification methods, etc.).

In many cases, the successful recovery of patients from septic shock is facilitated by additional careful use of small doses of gangliolytics. So, usually fractional (2.2-5 mg) or drip administration of pentamine at a dose of 25-30 mg in the first hour significantly improves peripheral and central hemodynamics, and eliminates hypotension. These positive effects of additional therapy with gangliolytics are associated with an increase in the sensitivity of adrenergic receptors to endogenous and exogenous catecholamines and adrenomimetics, an improvement in microcirculation, the inclusion of previously deposited blood in the active bloodstream, a decrease in cardiac output resistance, an increase in cardiac output and bcc. At the same time, one should take into account the possibility of increasing the concentration of biologically active substances, toxins and metabolic products in the blood as the microcirculation normalizes, especially if its violations were long-term. Concerning, in parallel, it is necessary to carry out active therapy of reperfusion syndrome. Careful adherence to these rules over the past 20 years allows us to successfully cope with septic shock at different stages of its development. Similar results in patients with obstetric-gynecological sepsis were obtained by Dr. N.I.Terekhov.

Infusion-transfusion therapy for sepsis

Infusion therapy is aimed at correcting metabolic and circulatory disorders, restoring normal homeostasis. It is carried out in all patients with sepsis, taking into account the severity of intoxication, the degree of volemic disorders, disorders of protein, electrolyte and other types of metabolism, the state of the immune system.

Main tasks infusion therapy are:

1 . Detoxification of the body by the method of forced diuresis and hemodilution. For this purpose, 3000-4000 ml of polyionic Ringer's solution and 5% glucose are administered intravenously at the rate of 50-70 ml/kg per day. Daily diuresis is maintained within 3-4 liters. This requires control of CVP, blood pressure, diuresis.

2 . Maintenance of the electrolyte and acid-base state of the blood. With sepsis, hypokalemia is usually noted due to the loss of potassium through the wound surface and in the urine (daily loss of potassium reaches 60-80 mmol). The acid-base state can change, both in the direction of alkalosis and acidosis. Correction is carried out according to the generally accepted method (1% potassium chloride solution for alkalosis or 4% sodium bicarbonate solution for acidosis).

3 . Maintenance of circulating blood volume (CBV).

4 . Correction of hypoproteinemia and anemia. Due to the increased consumption of the beam and intoxication, the protein content in patients with sepsis is often reduced to 30-40 g/l, the number of erythrocytes is up to 2.0-2.5 x 10 12 /l, with a Hb level below 40-50 g/l . Daily transfusion of complete protein preparations (native dry plasma, albumin, protein, amino acids), fresh heparinized blood, erythromass, washed erythrocytes is necessary.

5 . Improvement of peripheral circulation, blood rheology and prevention of platelet aggregation in capillaries. For this purpose, it is advisable to transfuse intravenously rheopolyglucin, hemodez, prescribe heparin at 2500-5000 IU 4-6 times a day; orally appoint as a disaggregant - acetylsalicylic acid (1-2 g per day) together with vikalin or quamatel under the control of the coagulogram, the number of platelets and their aggregation ability.

Intensive infusion therapy should be carried out for a long time until stable stabilization of all indicators of homeostasis. Therapy requires catheterization of the subclavian vein. It is convenient, as it allows not only to administer drugs, but also to repeatedly take blood samples, measure CVP, and control the adequacy of treatment.

An approximate scheme of infusion-transfusion therapy in patients with sepsis (ITT volume - 3.5-5 l / day):

I. Colloidal solutions:

1) polyglucin 400.0

2) gemodez 200.0 x 2 times a day

3) reopoliglyukin 400.0

B. Crystalloid solutions:

4) glucose 5% - 500.0 "

5) glucose 10-20% -500.0 x 2 times a day with insulin, KS1-1.5 g, NaCl- 1.0 g

6) Ringer's solution 500.0

7) Reambirin 400.0

II. Protein preparations:

8) solutions of amino acids (alvezin, aminone, etc.) - 500.0

9) protein 250.0

10) freshly citrated blood, erythrocyte suspension - 250-500.0 every other day

III. Solutions that correct violations of acid-base balance and electrolyte balance:

11) KC1 solution 1% - 300.0-450.0

12) sodium bicarbonate 4% solution (base deficiency calculation).

1U. If necessary, preparations for parenteral nutrition (1500-2000 cal), fat emulsions (intralipid, lipofundin, etc.) in combination with amino acid solutions (aminon, aminosol), as well as intravenous administration of concentrated glucose solutions (20-50%) with insulin and solution of 1% potassium chloride.

At anemia it is necessary to carry out regular transfusions of freshly preserved blood, erythrocyte suspensions. The use of dextrans against the background of oliguria should be limited due to the risk of developing osmotic nephrosis. Large doses of dextrans increase hemorrhagic disorders.

Usage respiratory support may be required in patients with SIRS or MOF. Breathing support eases the burden on the oxygen delivery system and reduces the oxygen cost of breathing. Gas exchange improves due to better oxygenation of the blood.

Enteral nutrition should be administered as early as possible (still additional restoration of peristalsis), in small portions (with 25-30 ml) or a drip pouring balanced humanized infant formula, or a mixture of Spasokukkotsky or special balanced nutrient mixtures (“Nutrison”, “Nutridrink”, etc.). If swallowing is impossible, inject mixtures through a nasogastric tube, incl. through NITK. The rationale for this may be: a) food, being a physiological stimulus, triggers peristalsis; b) full parenteral compensation is impossible in principle; c) by triggering peristalsis, we reduce the chance of intestinal bacterial translocation.

Oral intake or tube administration should be carried out after 2-3 hours. With an increase in discharge through the probe or the appearance of belching, feelings of fullness - skip 1-2 injections; in the absence - increase the volume to 50 - 100 ml. It is better to introduce nutrient mixtures through a tube drip, which allows you to increase the effectiveness of nutritional support and avoid these complications.

Balance and total calories should be checked daily; from the 3rd day after the operation, it should be at least 2500 kcal. Deficiency in composition and caloric content should be compensated by intravenous administration of glucose, albumin, fat emulsions. Perhaps the introduction of 33% alcohol, if there are no contraindications - cerebral edema, intracranial hypertension, severe metabolic acidosis. Correct the "mineral" composition of the serum, introduce a full set of vitamins (regardless of oral nutrition " C "at least 1 g / day and the entire group "B"). In the presence of a formed intestinal fistula, it is desirable to collect and return the discharge through a nasogastric tube or into the efferent colon.

Contraindications to oral or tube feeding are: acute pancreatitis, discharge by nasogastric tube >500 ml, discharge by NITK >1000 ml.

Immunity Correction Methods

An important place in the treatment of patients with sepsis is occupied by passive and active immunization. Both non-specific and specific immunotherapy should be used.

In acute sepsis, passive immunization is indicated. Specific immunotherapy should include the introduction of immune globulins (gamma globulin 4 doses 6 times a day), hyperimmune plasma (antistaphylococcal, antipseudomonal, anticolibacillary), whole blood or its fractions (plasma, serum, or leukocyte suspension) from immunized donors (100 -200ml).

A decrease in the number of T-lymphocytes responsible for cellular immunity indicates the need to replenish the leukocyte mass or fresh blood from an immunized donor or convalescent. A decrease in B-lymphocytes indicates a lack of humoral immunity. In this case, it is advisable to transfuse immunoglobulin or immune plasma.

Conducting active specific immunization (with toxoid) in the acute period of sepsis should be considered unpromising, since it takes a long time (20-30 days) to produce antibodies. In addition, it should be taken into account that the septic process develops against the background of an extremely tense or already depleted immunity.

In chronic sepsis or during the recovery period in acute sepsis, the appointment of active immunization agents - toxoids, autovaccines is indicated. Anatoxin is administered in doses of 0.5-1.0 ml with an interval of three days.

To increase immunity and increase the adaptive abilities of the body, immunocorrectors and immunostimulants are used: polyoxidonium, thymazine, thymalin, T-activin, immunofan 1 ml 1 time for 2-5 days (increase the content of T- and B-lymphocytes, improve the functional activity of lymphocytes) , lysozyme, prodigiosan, pentoxyl, levamisole and other drugs.

In sepsis, a differentiated approach to the correction of immune deficiency is necessary, depending on the severity of immune disorders and SIRS. Immunotherapy is necessary for patients in whom the need for intensive care arose against the background of a chronic inflammatory process, with a history of a tendency to various inflammatory diseases (chronic immunodeficiency is likely) and with severe SIRS.

Regardless of the severity of the condition, nonspecific biogenic stimulants are indicated: metacil, mildronate or mumiyo. Normalizes the ratio of cells of the main classes of subpopulations of T-lymphocytes, activates the early stages of antibody genesis and promotes the maturation and differentiation of immunocompetent cells extracorporeal immunopharmacotherapy with immunofan. The use of recombinant IL-2 (roncoleukin) is promising.

Considering that one of the starting points in the development of secondary immunodeficiency is a hyperergic stress reaction, the use of stress-protective therapy makes it possible to correct immunity at an earlier time. The method of combined use of stress-protective, adaptagenic therapy and efferent detoxification methods is as follows. After admission of patients to the intensive care unit with the beginning of infusion therapy, neuropeptide dalargin 30 μg/kg/day or instenon 2 ml/day are administered intravenously.

When positive numbers of CVP are reached, in order to reduce the hyperergic stress reaction, stabilize hemodynamics and correct metabolism, intensive care includes clonidine at a dose of 1.5 μg / kg (0.36 μg / kg / hour) intravenously drip 1 time per day, in parallel continuing infusion therapy. After the release of patients from septic shock, to continue neurovegetative protection, pentamine is administered intramuscularly at a dose of 1.5 mg/kg/day, 4 times a day during the catabolic stage of sepsis. Bioprotector mildronate is prescribed intravenously from 1 to 14 days at a dose of 7 mg/kg/day 1 time per day; actovegin - intravenous drip once a day, 15-20 mg / kg / day.

VLOK sessions(0.71-0.633 microns, power at the output of the light guide 2 mW, exposure 30 minutes) is carried out from the first day (6 hours after the start of ITT), 5-7 sessions within 10 days. Plasmapheresis is started in patients with severe sepsis after stabilization of hemodynamics; in other cases, in the presence of endotoxicosis II-III degree.

The technique of programmed plasmapheresis is carried out as follows. Pentamine 5% - 0.5 ml is administered intramuscularly 4 hours before PF. An ILBI session (according to the method described above) is carried out in 30 minutes. before plasmapheresis (PF). Preload is carried out by infusion of rheopolyglucin (5-6 ml/kg) with trental (1.5 mg/kg). After preload, pentamine is administered intravenously at a dose of 5 mg every 3-5 minutes in a total dose of 25-30 mg. Blood sampling is carried out in bottles with sodium citrate at the rate of 1/5 of the BCC, after which an infusion of 5% glucose solution (5-7 ml/kg) with protease inhibitors (kontrykal 150-300 U/kg) is started. During the infusion of glucose intravenously administered: a solution of CaCl 2 - 15 mg / kg, diphenhydramine - 0.15 mg / kg, a solution of pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B 6) - 1.5 mg / kg.

After blood sampling, sodium hypochlorite is injected into the vials at a concentration of 600 mg/l, the ratio of sodium hypochlorite/blood is 1.0-0.5 ml/10 ml. The blood is centrifuged for 15 minutes. at a speed of 2000 rpm. Subsequently, the plasma is exfused into a sterile vial, and the erythrocytes, after dilution with a 1:1 solution of "Disol", are returned to the patient.

Instead of the removed plasma, donor plasma (70% of the volume) and albumin (protein) - 30% of the volume are injected in the same amount.

Sodium hypochlorite is injected into the exfused plasma at a concentration of 600 mg/l, the ratio of sodium hypochlorite/blood is 2.0-1.0 ml/10 ml (193). After that, the plasma is cooled to +4, +6 0 C in a household refrigerator with an exposure of 2-16 hours. The plasma is then centrifuged for 15 minutes. at a speed of 2000 rpm. The precipitated cryogel is removed, the plasma is frozen in a freezer at a temperature of -14 0 C. A day later, the patient undergoes the next PF session: the exfused plasma is replaced with thawed autoplasma. The number of PF sessions is determined by clinical and laboratory indicators of toxemia and ranges from 1 to 5. In the presence of positive blood cultures, it is better not to return the exfused plasma to the patient.

In order to correct secondary immunodeficiency, prevent bacterial and septic complications, it shows high efficiency. method of extracorporeal processing of leukocytes immunofan. The method of extracorporeal treatment of leukocytes with immunofan is as follows.

Donor blood is taken through the central venous collector in the morning in the amount of 200-400 ml. As an anticoagulant, heparin is used at the rate of 25 IU / ml of blood. After sampling, the vials with exfused and heparinized blood are centrifuged for 15 minutes at a speed of 1500 rpm, after which the plasma is exfused. A buffy coat is collected in a sterile vial and diluted with a 0.9% NaCl solution - 200-250 ml and "Wednesday 199" 50-100 ml. At this time, the erythrocytes returned to the patient (scheme No. 1).

Immunofan 75-125 μg per 1x10 9 leukocytes is added to the vial with leukocyte suspension. The resulting solution is incubated for 90 minutes at t 0 =37 0 C in a thermostat, then re-centrifuged for 15 minutes at a speed of 1500 rpm. After centrifugation, the solution is removed from the vial to the leukocyte film, the leukocytes are washed 3 times with a sterile saline solution of 200-300 ml, the washed leukocytes are diluted with NaCl 0.9% 50-100 ml and transfused intravenously to the patient.

We also provide more detailed information on the correction of immunity and new effective methods in other sections of the monograph.

Extracorporeal treatment of leukocytes with immunofan

hormone therapy

Corticosteroids are usually prescribed at the risk of developing septic shock. In such cases, prednisolone 30-40 mg 4-6 times a day should be prescribed. Upon reaching the clinical effect, the dose of the drug is gradually reduced.

In septic shock, prednisolone should be administered at a dose of 1000-1500 mg per day (1-2 days), and then, when the effect is achieved, they switch to maintenance doses (200-300 mg) for 2-3 days. Effective in sepsis, progesterone, which unloads RES, increases kidney function.

The introduction of anabolic hormones should be considered indicated, subject to sufficient intake of energy and plastic materials into the body. The most applicable is retabolil (1 ml intramuscularly I-2 times a week).

Symptomatic therapy of sepsis

Symptomatic treatment includes the use of cardiac, vascular drugs, analgesics, narcotic drugs, anticoagulants.

Considering the high level of kininogens in sepsis and the role of kinins in microcirculation disorders, proteolysis inhibitors are included in the complex treatment of sepsis: Gordox 300-500 thousand U, Contrykal 150 thousand U per day, Trasilol 200-250 thousand U, Pantrikin 240-320 U (maintenance doses are 2-3 times less).

For pain - drugs, for insomnia or arousal - sleeping pills and sedatives.

With sepsis, abrupt changes in the hemostasis (hemocoagulation) system can be observed - hyper- and hypocoagulation, fibrinolysis, disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), consumption coagulopathy. If signs of increased intravascular coagulation are detected, it is advisable to use heparin at a daily dose of 30-60 thousand units intravenously, fraxiparine 0.3-0.6 ml 2 times a day, acetylsalicylic acid 1-2 g as a disaggregant.

If there are signs of activation of the anticoagulant fibrinolytic system, the use of protease inhibitors (kontrykal, trasilol, Gordox) is indicated. Kontrykal is administered intravenously under the control of a coagulogram at the beginning of 40 thousand units per day, and then daily at 20 thousand units, the course of treatment lasts 5 days. Trasilol is administered intravenously in 500 ml of isotonic solution, 10-20 thousand units per day. Inside appoint Amben 0.26 g 2-4 times a day or intramuscularly 0.1 once a day. Aminocaproic acid is used in the form of a 5% solution in an isotonic sodium chloride solution up to 100 ml. Other information on the correction of hemostasis is given in the lecture "Hemostasis. Disseminated intravascular coagulation syndrome" (vol. 2).

To maintain cardiac activity (deterioration of coronary circulation and myocardial nutrition, as well as with septic lesions of endo- and myocardium), cocarboxylase, riboxin, mildronate, preductal, ATP, isoptin, cardiac glycosides (strophanthin 0.05% - 1.0 ml , corglicon 0.06%-2.0 ml per day), large doses of vitamins (Vit. C 1000 mg per day, Vit. B 12 500 mcg 2 times a day).

In case of insufficient pulmonary ventilation (ODV), oxygen inhalations are used through nasopharyngeal catheters, and the tracheobronchial tree is sanitized. Measures are being taken to increase the airiness of the lung tissue and the activity of the surfactant: breathing under high pressure with a mixture of O 2 + air + phytancides, mucolytics. Vibration massage is shown.

If the phenomena of ARF persist, then the patient is transferred to mechanical ventilation (with VC 15 ml / kg, RO 2 70 mm Hg, RSO 2 50 mm Hg). Drugs (up to 60 mg of morphine) can be used to synchronize breathing. Mechanical ventilation with positive expiratory pressure is used, but before switching to it, it is imperative to compensate for the BCC deficit, because. impaired venous return reduces cardiac output.

Serious attention in sepsis deserves the prevention and treatment of intestinal paresis, which is achieved by normalizing the water and electrolyte balance, the rheological properties of the blood, as well as the use of pharmacological stimulation of the intestine (anticholinesterase drugs, adrenogangliolytics, potassium chloride, etc.). Effective is the infusion of a 30% solution of sorbitol, which, in addition to a stimulating effect on intestinal motility, increases BCC, has a diuretic and vitamin-saving effect. It is recommended to administer Cerucal 2 ml 1-3 times a day intramuscularly or intravenously.

As our studies have shown, an effective treatment for intestinal paresis is prolonged ganglionic blockade with normotonia (pentamine 5% -0.5 ml intramuscularly 3-4 times a day for 5-10 days). Sympatholytics (ornid, britilium tosylate) and alpha-adrenolytics (pyrroxane, butyroxane, phentolamine) have a similar effect.

General care of patients with sepsis

Treatment of patients with sepsis is provided either in special intensive care units equipped with resuscitation equipment, or in intensive care units. The doctor does not "lead" a patient with sepsis, but, as a rule, nurses. Careful care of the skin and oral cavity, prevention of bedsores, daily breathing exercises are carried out.

A patient with sepsis should receive food every 2-3 hours. Food should be high-calorie, easily digestible, varied, tasty, containing a large amount of vitamins.

The diet includes milk, as well as its various products (fresh cottage cheese, sour cream, kefir, yogurt), eggs, boiled meat, fresh fish, white bread, etc.

To combat dehydration and intoxication, septic patients should receive a large amount of liquids (up to 2-3 liters) in any form: tea, milk, fruit drink, coffee, vegetable and fruit juices, mineral water (Narzan, Borjomi). Preference should be given to enteral nutrition provided that the gastrointestinal tract is functioning normally.

Actively introduced into practice and should be used more widely scales for scoring the severity of the condition of patients. For the purpose of prognosis in the treatment of sepsis and septic shock, in our opinion, the APACNE II scale can be considered the most convenient for practical use. So, when assessed on a scale of APACNE II - 22 points, mortality in septic shock is 50%, and against the background of APACNE II - 35, it is 93%.

In a short lecture it is not possible to present all the issues of such a capacious topic as sepsis. Separate aspects of this problem are also given in other lectures mentioned above. In the same place the reader will find some sources of literature on this topic.

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Sepsis is treated in the intensive care unit. It includes surgical treatment, antibiotic therapy, detoxification therapy and immunotherapy, elimination of water-electrolyte and protein disorders, restoration of impaired functions of organs and systems, balanced high-calorie nutrition, symptomatic treatment.

An integrated approach to the treatment of sepsis involves not only a combination of means and methods, but also their parallel, simultaneous use. Multifactorial changes in the body in sepsis, the characteristics of the primary focus of infection, the initial state of the body, concomitant diseases determine an individual approach to the treatment of a patient with sepsis.

Surgery

Surgery is performed on an emergency or emergency basis. After stabilization of the basic functions of the body, primarily hemodynamics. Intensive care in these cases should be short-term and effective, and the operation is performed as quickly as possible with adequate pain relief.

Surgical intervention can be primary when it is performed with a threat of generalization of infection or with sepsis, which complicates the course of purulent diseases. Repeated surgical interventions are performed when sepsis develops in the postoperative period or the primary operation did not lead to an improvement in the patient's condition with sepsis.

During surgery, the source of infection is removed if the state of the focus allows with a limited purulent process (breast abscess, post-injection abscess), or an organ together with an abscess (pyosalpinx, purulent endometritis, spleen abscess, kidney carbuncle). More often, surgical treatment consists in opening an abscess, phlegmon, removing non-viable tissues, opening purulent streaks, pockets, and drainage.

With purulent peritonitis, the task of surgical treatment is to eliminate the cause, adequate sanitation of the abdominal cavity (repeated sanitation according to indications); in osteomyelitis - opening of intraosseous abscesses and drainage.

Repeated surgical interventions are performed not only with the development of complications in the postoperative period, the appearance of purulent metastases, suppuration of wounds. Operations include opening and drainage of purulent streaks, pockets, changing drains, overdraining of purulent foci, cavities, repeated necrectomy, secondary surgical treatment of festering wounds, opening and drainage of metastatic purulent foci.

Sanitation of purulent foci by closed methods (punctures, drainage) is performed with formed abscesses. These are intra-abdominal and intrahepatic abscesses, festering cysts of the pancreas, non-draining lung abscesses, pleural empyema, purulent arthritis.

Infected implants, foreign bodies, which caused the generalization of the infection, are to be removed (metal structures during osteosynthesis, vascular and articular prostheses, heart valves, mesh implants for plastic surgery of abdominal and chest wall defects). Infected venous catheters must also be removed.

Antibacterial therapy

Antibiotics form the basis of general antibiotic therapy. Antibiotic therapy can be in two ways - the primary choice of drugs or a change in the antibiotic regimen. Most often, in sepsis, antibiotic therapy is empirical: drugs are chosen taking into account the alleged pathogen and depending on the primary source. For example, wound sepsis most often has a staphylococcal nature, abdominal - mixed, mostly gram-negative, including anaerobic.

The high risk of severe complications and death, when a delay in effective antibiotic therapy even for a day is fraught with unpredictable consequences, forces treatment to be started with combination therapy, and in severe sepsis, with reserve antibiotics.

The drugs of choice for empiric treatment of severe sepsis are third- or fourth-generation cephalosporins, fluoroquinolones in combination with clindomycin or dioxidine or metrogil, and carbapenems for monotherapy.

In modern conditions, the role of nosocomial infection in the development of sepsis is extremely high, and with the development of multiple organ failure (MOF), the choice of an antibiotic for empirical therapy is important, if not decisive. In such conditions, carbapenems (imipenem, meropenem) play a primary role.

The advantage of these drugs is a wide spectrum of action on the aerobic and anaerobic flora (the drug is used in monovariant). The microflora is highly sensitive to antibiotics of this group. The drugs are characterized by high tropism to different tissues, and tropism to the peritoneum is higher than that of all other antibiotics.

In choosing an antibiotic for empirical therapy, it is important to establish not only the suspected causative agent of the infection, but also the primary source (skin and subcutaneous tissue, bones and joints, pancreas, peritonitis with colon perforation or appendicitis). The selection of antibiotics taking into account their organotropism is one of the most important components of rational antibacterial therapy. The organotoxicity of preparations is also taken into account, especially in conditions of PON.

When conducting antibiotic therapy, one should take into account the possibility of a massive release of bacterial endotoxins during the bactericidal action of the drugs. When the shell of gram-negative bacteria is destroyed, a polysaccharide (endotoxin) is released, gram-positive bacteria - teichoic acid with the development of the Jarisch-Herxheimer syndrome. The toxic effect of these substances on the cardiovascular system is especially pronounced.

After the pathogen is isolated from the focus and blood, antibiotic therapy is adjusted.

With staphylococcal sepsis caused by methicillin-sensitive staphylococcus, oxacillin is used, with intraosseous foci of infection - in combination with gentamicin.

If sepsis is caused by methicillin-resistant strains of staphylococcus, vancomycin or rifampicin is indicated. The resistance of the microflora quickly develops to the latter, which determines the need to combine it with ciprofloxacin.

In streptococcal sepsis, the antibiotics of choice, taking into account the sensitivity of the microbial flora, are ampicillin, cefotoxin, vancomycin, imipenem, meropenem.

Pneumococcal sepsis determines the use of third-fourth generation cephalosporins, carbapenems, vancomycin.

Among the gram-negative flora, enterobacteria that are multiresistant to antibiotics predominate: E. coli, P. mirabien, P. vulgaris, Klebs.spp., Citrobacterfreundis. Carbapenems are the main antibiotics in the treatment of diseases caused by these microorganisms. When isolating Pseudomonas spp., Acinetobacter spp., which are usually multidrug resistant, carbapenems or ceftazidine in combination with amikacin are the antibiotics of choice.

Abdominal sepsis caused by anaerobic pathogens (bacteroids) or wound clostridial sepsis determine the need for combination therapy (cephalosporins, fluoroquinolones in combination with clindamycin, dioxidine, metronidazole), and in case of abdominal sepsis - carbopenems.

In fungal (candidiasis) sepsis, antibiotic therapy includes caspofungin, amphotericin B, fluconazole.

The basic principles of antibiotic therapy for sepsis are as follows.

Empiric therapy begins with the use of maximum therapeutic doses of third-fourth generation cephalosporins, semi-synthetic aminoglycosides, with inefficiency, they quickly switch to fluoroquinolones or carbapenems. Correction of antibiotic therapy is carried out according to the results of bacteriological studies of the contents of the purulent focus, blood. If the drugs are effective, they continue treatment.

If necessary, a combination of two antibiotics with a different spectrum of action or an antibiotic with one of the chemical antiseptics (nitrofurans, dioxidine, metronidazole) is used.

Antibacterial drugs are administered in different ways. Antiseptics are applied topically (intrapleurally, endotracheally, intraosseously into the joint cavity, etc., depending on the location of the focus), and antibiotics are administered intramuscularly, intravenously, intraarterially.

The duration of the course of antibiotic therapy is individual and depends on the patient's condition (treatment is continued until the signs of SSVR are eliminated: normalization of body temperature or decrease to subfebrile numbers, normalization of the number of leukocytes or moderate leukocytosis with a normal blood count).

With osteomyelitis, the remaining cavity in the liver, the lung after sanitation of an abscess, the residual pleural cavity with empyema, with sepsis caused by S. aureus, antibiotic therapy is continued for 1-2 weeks after clinical recovery and two negative blood cultures.

The response to adequate antibiotic therapy appears after 4-6 days. The lack of effect determines the search for complications - the formation of metastatic foci, purulent streaks, the appearance of foci of necrosis.

Hypovolemia in shock, especially infectious-toxic, is always present and is determined not only by fluid loss, but also by its redistribution in the body (intravascular, interstitial, intracellular). Violations of the BCC are due to both developed sepsis and the initial level of changes in the water and electrolyte balance associated with the underlying disease (abscess, phlegmon, pleural empyema, festering wound, burns, peritonitis, osteomyelitis, etc.).

The desire to restore BCC to normovolemia is due to the need to stabilize hemodynamics, microcirculation, oncotic and osmotic blood pressure, and normalize all three water basins.

Restoration of water and electrolyte balance is a matter of paramount importance, and it is provided with colloidal and crystalloid solutions. From colloidal solutions, preference is given to dextrans and hydroxyethyl starch. To restore the oncotic properties of blood, correct hypoalbuminemia (hypoproteinemia) in an acute situation, albumin in concentrated solutions, native, fresh frozen donor plasma remain ideal means.

To correct violations of the acid-base state, a 1% solution of potassium chloride is used for alkalosis or a 5% solution of sodium bicarbonate for acidosis. To restore the protein balance, amino acid mixtures (aminone, aminosol, alvesin), protein, albumin, dry and native donor blood plasma are administered. To combat anemia, regular transfusions of freshly preserved blood and red blood cells are indicated. The minimum concentration of hemoglobin in sepsis is 80–90 g/l.

Detoxification therapy

In acute and chronic renal failure, hemodialysis is used, which allows you to remove only excess fluid and toxic substances of small molecular weight. Hemofiltration expands the range of removed toxic substances - products of impaired metabolism, inflammation, tissue decay, bacterial toxins. Plasmapheresis is effective for removing toxic substances dissolved in plasma, microorganisms, toxins. The removed plasma is replenished with donor fresh frozen plasma, albumin in combination with colloid and crystalloid solutions.

In severe sepsis, the level of IgY, IgM, IgA is especially reduced. A pronounced decrease in T- and B-lymphocytes reflects a progressive lack of immunity when the infectious process is not resolved. Indicators of violation (perversion) of the body's immune response are manifested by an increase in the level of the CEC in the blood. A high level of CEC also indicates a violation of phagocytosis.

Of the means of specific exposure, the use of antistaphylococcal and anticolibacillary plasma, antistaphylococcal gamma globulin, polyglobulin, gabriglobin, sandobulin, pentaglobin is indicated. With suppression of cellular immunity (decrease in the absolute content of T-lymphocytes), violation of the phagocytic reaction, the transfusion of leukocyte mass, including from immunized donors, freshly prepared blood, the appointment of thymal preparations - thymalin, taktivin are indicated.

Passive immunization (replacement therapy) is carried out during the period of development, at the height of the disease, while during the recovery period, means of active immunization are indicated - toxoids, autovaccines. Nonspecific immunotherapy includes lysozyme, prodigiosan, thymalin. Taking into account the role of cytokines in the development of sepsis, interleukin-2 (roncoleukin) is used with a sharp decrease in the level of T-lymphocytes.

Corticosteroids are indicated as replacement therapy after determining the hormonal background. Only when sepsis is complicated by bacterial toxic shock, prednisolone is prescribed (up to 500-800 mg on the 1st day, then 150-250 mg / day) for a short period (2-3 days). Corticosteroids in the usual therapeutic doses (100-200 mg / day) are used when allergic reactions occur.

Due to the high level of kininogens in sepsis and the role of kinins in microcirculation disorders, proteolysis inhibitors (gordox 200,000 - 300,000 IU / day or contrical 40,000 - 60,000 IU / day) are included in the complex therapy of sepsis.

Symptomatic treatment involves the use of cardiac, vascular agents, analgesics, anticoagulants, agents that reduce vascular permeability, etc.

Intensive therapy of sepsis is carried out for a long time, until a stable improvement in the patient's condition and restoration of homeostasis.

The nutrition of patients with sepsis should be varied and balanced, high-calorie, with sufficient protein and vitamins. Be sure to include fresh vegetables and fruits in your daily diet. In the normal functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, enteral nutrition should be preferred, otherwise complete or additional parenteral nutrition is necessary.

A high degree of catabolic processes in sepsis is determined by PON and is accompanied by the consumption of tissue protein as a result of the destruction of its own cellular structures.

The specific energy value of the daily diet should be 30-40 kcal / kg, protein intake 1.3-2.0-1 kg or 0.25-0.35 g of nitrogen / kg, fat - 0.5-1 g / kg. Vitamins, trace elements and electrolytes - in the amount of daily requirements.

A balanced diet is started as early as possible, without waiting for catabolic changes in the body.

With enteral nutrition, ordinary food products are used, with tube nutrition, balanced nutritional mixtures are given with the addition of certain ingredients. Parenteral nutrition is provided with solutions of glucose, amino acids, fat emulsions, electrolyte solutions. You can combine tube and parenteral nutrition, enteral and parenteral nutrition.

Specific types of sepsis

Actinomycotic sepsis complicates visceral actinomycosis. Dissemination in actinomycosis can lead to an isolated lesion of one organ by metastasis or to the development of metastases simultaneously in several organs.

Clinically, actinomycotic pemia is accompanied by a significant exacerbation of the actinomycotic process, an increase in temperature to 38-39 ° C, the formation of new actinomycotic infiltrates, purulent foci in various areas of the body and organs, severe pain, exhaustion, and a severe general condition of the patient.

For the treatment of actinomycotic sepsis, in addition to the means and methods used in bacterial sepsis, special high doses of antibiotics, actinolysates and blood transfusion are important.
Anaerobic sepsis can develop with anaerobic gangrene caused by Clostridium. Sepsis can also be caused by other anaerobic organisms, although this is much less common.

Anaerobic sepsis usually develops in severe wounds, in weakened, exsanguinated wounded. There is a rapid development of anaerobic gangrene with high body temperature (40-40.5 ° C), frequent and small pulse, extremely serious condition, confusion or loss of consciousness (sometimes it is preserved, but excitation, euphoria are noted). In peacetime, anaerobic sepsis almost never occurs.

To the above method of treating sepsis in the anaerobic form, intramuscular and intravenous drip injection of large doses of anti-gangrenous serum (10-20 prophylactic doses per day), intravenous drip and intramuscular injection of a mixture of anti-gangrenous phages should be added.

Sepsis of newborns is more often associated with the introduction of an infection (mainly staphylococcus aureus) through the umbilical wound, abrasions, etc. Jumping temperature, lethargy, skin rash, jaundice, diarrhea and vomiting, hemorrhages in the skin and mucous membranes make up the clinical picture of sepsis in children. Chills are rare, the spleen enlarges early.

Pneumonic foci, purulent pleurisy, lung abscesses and pericarditis, which occur with sepsis and are taken as the underlying disease, lead to diagnostic errors. Sometimes sepsis occurs under the guise of food intoxication.

VC. Gostishchev

The draft was prepared by the working group: S.V. Yakovlev, S.V. Sidorenko,

V.B. Beloborodov
KALUGA, June 2004

Antimicrobial therapy algorithm for sepsis

Antimicrobial agents are an essential component of the complex therapy of sepsis. In recent years, convincing evidence has been obtained that early, adequate empirical antibiotic therapy for sepsis leads to a decrease in mortality and morbidity (category of evidence C). A series of retrospective studies also allows us to conclude that adequate antibiotic therapy reduces mortality in sepsis caused by gram-negative microorganisms (category of evidence C), gram-positive microorganisms (category of evidence D) and fungi (category of evidence C).

Taking into account the data on the improvement of disease outcomes with early adequate antibiotic therapy, antibiotics for sepsis should be prescribed immediately after the nosological diagnosis has been clarified and until the results of bacteriological examination (empirical therapy) are obtained. After receiving the results of a bacteriological study, the antibiotic therapy regimen can be adjusted taking into account the isolated microflora and its antibiotic sensitivity.

Etiological diagnosis of sepsis

Microbiological diagnosis of sepsis is decisive in the choice of adequate antibiotic therapy regimens. The results of etiotropic therapy of sepsis are much better than empirical ones, that is, when the choice of antibiotic is carried out with an unidentified pathogen. Therefore, adequate microbiological diagnosis of sepsis should be given no less attention than the choice of therapy regimen.

With the observance of strict requirements for the correct sampling of material and the use of modern microbiological techniques, a positive blood culture in sepsis is observed in more than 50% of cases. Isolation of the microorganism from the blood (normally sterile fluid) is usually sufficient to make an etiological diagnosis. When isolating typical pathogens such as Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, fungi, one positive blood culture is enough to make a diagnosis. However, when isolating microorganisms that are skin saprophytes and can contaminate the sample (Staphylococcus epidermidis) other coagulase-negative staphylococci, diphtheroids), two positive blood cultures are required to confirm true bacteremia. Modern automatic methods of blood culture research (for example, Bactec/Alert system) allow fixing the growth of microorganisms within 6-8 hours of incubation (up to 24 hours), which makes it possible to obtain an accurate identification of the pathogen after another 24-48 hours.

To conduct an adequate microbiological diagnosis of sepsis, the following rules should be strictly observed:

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   Blood for research must be taken before antibiotics are prescribed. If the patient is already receiving antibiotic therapy, then, if possible, antibiotics should be discontinued for at least 24 hours, after which blood sampling should be carried out. If it is impossible to cancel antibiotics, blood should be taken immediately before the next administration of the drug.
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   The required minimum sampling is two samples taken from different hands with an interval of 30 minutes. It is optimal to take three blood samples, which significantly increases the detection of the pathogen. Studies have shown that more samples have no advantage over sampling three times in terms of the frequency of detection of pathogens. Blood sampling at the height of fever does not increase the sensitivity of the method (evidence category C).

4. It is best to use standard commercial vials of pre-packaged culture media rather than vials of culture media sealed with laboratory-prepared cotton gauze vials. Firstly, laboratory-prepared media are not sufficiently standardized and the frequency of isolation of microorganisms from the blood during their use is significantly lower. Secondly, when opening the lid of the vial and introducing a blood sample from the syringe, there is a risk of contamination of the nutrient medium with air microflora. In addition, negative pressure is created in commercial vials, which ensures the supply of a strictly defined amount of blood without contact with the environment (using an adapter system with needles at opposite ends of the catheter).

5. Blood sampling from a peripheral vein should be carried out with careful observance of asepsis. The skin at the venipuncture site is treated with a solution of iodine or povidone-iodine in concentric movements from the center to the periphery for at least 1 minute. Immediately before sampling, the skin is treated with 70% alcohol. Sterile gloves are used during venipuncture. The lid of the vial with the medium is treated with alcohol. For each sample, 10 ml of blood is taken.

Careful processing of the skin, vial caps and the use of commercial blood collection systems with an adapter can reduce the degree of sample contamination to 3% or less.

Rationale for Empiric Antimicrobial Therapy for Sepsis

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  The range of suspected pathogens depending on the localization of the primary focus (Table 1);
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  The level of resistance of nosocomial pathogens according to microbiological monitoring 1 ;
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  Conditions for the occurrence of sepsis - community-acquired or nosocomial;
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  Severity of infection assessed by the presence of multiple organ failure or APACHE II.

Sepsis can be caused by bacteria and fungi, with the former accounting for >95% of cases. Currently, in most multidisciplinary medical institutions, the frequency of gram-positive and gram-negative sepsis is approximately the same. There is a certain relationship between the localization of the focus of infection and the nature of the microflora that triggers the infectious-inflammatory process (Table 1). Of no small importance, which determines the etiology of sepsis, is the fact of participation in the septic process of the intestine. Violation of microcirculation leads to pathological permeability of the mucous membrane, which is accompanied by the translocation of bacteria and their endotoxins into the portal system, and then into the general circulation system.

Increasing life expectancy in critically ill survivors, the popularity of combination antibiotic regimens, and new broad-spectrum drugs have led to the emergence in recent years of previously rare organisms such as Enterococcus faecium, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Flavobacterium spp. In the departments of transplantology and oncology, sepsis caused by fungi is no exception (usually Candida spp.)
Table 1

Presumptive etiology of sepsis depending on the localization of the primary focus