Question

What are the important clinical implications of blood or cerebrospinal fluid that tests positive for microbes?

What is the rule of 100s for sepsis? What are other laboratory values that can confirm a sepsis diagnosis?

Answer 1

When microbial infection spreads into the blood, the infection spreads to several organs like heart, brain, etc. This microbial infection triggers immune system that acts vigorously and even damages own body organs. This condition is called sepsis. The observation of microbial infection in blood and cerebro spinal fluid of brain shows that the risk of having sepsis.

The 100s rule is also called three 100s rule. In which the body temperature is above 100. Blood pressure is above 100. Heart rate is above 100 is maintained in the patients of sepsis.

WBC count is increase during the sepsis. Normal WBC range is 10000 but above this value shows sepsis condition. Finally Normal serum level is 0.05 ng/ml but the sepsis condition shows 2 nh/ml. These are some of the lab values during sepsis. Sepsis can also be diagnosed by Complete blood count (CBC) test.