Sepsis and Septic Shock in Pregnancy - Children's Memorial ...

Antimicrobial Therapy• Infection prevention• Prompt cultures– Don’t delay therapy– Often (1/3) blood cultures negative• Prompt empiric antibiotic therapy– Survival differences seen in delay of therapy ofonly 1 hr• Source control– Debridement of infected tissue– Search for surgically correctable origin infection(abscess, appendicitis, etc.)