Core to Skin Temperature Gradient in Septic Shock Patients and its Impact on Mortality: A Review
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37506/ijfmt.v17i4.19948Keywords:
Sepsis, Septic Shock, Mortality, ICU, Core temperature, Skin temperature, ThermographyAbstract
Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction resulting from a dysregulated host response to infection, consistent
with the Sepsis-5 consensus definition. Septic shock should be defined as a subtype of sepsis in which particularly
severe circulatory, cellular, and metabolic abnormalities are associated with a higher mortality risk than sepsis
alone. Infection-induced release of bacterial toxins, inflammatory mediators, cytokines, and vasoactive substances
increases capillary permeability and leads to extensive plasma leakage, resulting in insufficient effective circulating
blood volume and microcirculatory dysfunction., can cause electrolyte imbalances, acidosis, and other changes in
the internal environment. Septic shock is associated with alterations in peripheral blood flow, and core-to-skin
temperature gradients depend on cutaneous blood flow and microcirculatory function. Infrared thermography is
a non-invasive technique that uses an infrared camera to record the infrared radiation emitted by the body, from
which temperature is derived. We, therefore, hypothesized that high core-to-skin temperature gradients correlate
with septic shock and mortality.
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