Age, exercise, and the outcome of sepsis

Debasree Banerjee; Steven M Opal

doi:10.1186/s13054-017-1840-9

Age, exercise, and the outcome of sepsis

Crit Care. 2017 Nov 23;21(1):286. doi: 10.1186/s13054-017-1840-9.

Authors

Debasree Banerjee^{1

2}, Steven M Opal^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 593 Eddy St., Providence, RI, 02903, USA. dbanerjee@lifespan.org.
² Lifespan Hospital System, Providence, RI, USA. dbanerjee@lifespan.org.
³ Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 593 Eddy St., Providence, RI, 02903, USA.
⁴ Lifespan Hospital System, Providence, RI, USA.

Abstract

We report on the increasingly important need to diagnose and care for the elderly with sepsis as a distinct patient population. We share an overview of age-related changes in sepsis physiology and the potential role of exercise.See related research by Tyml et al., https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-017-1783-1.

Keywords: Aging and immunity; Exercise and infections; Immunosenescence; Sepsis; Sepsis in the elderly; Septic shock.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Age Factors*
Exercise / physiology*
Humans
Organ Dysfunction Scores
Patient Outcome Assessment*
Sepsis / mortality*