Acute infective endocarditis masquerading as septic shock with acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- John W. Davis; Fawad Virk; Masood Ahmad
- Source
- Clinical Case Reports, Vol 8, Iss 12, Pp 3148-3152 (2020)
- Subject
- echocardiography
mitral valve regurgitation
point‐of‐care screening
sepsis
infective endocarditis
Medicine
Medicine (General)
R5-920
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2050-0904
Abstract Any new pulmonary edema warrants an urgent rule out of acute cardiac dysfunction. Because sepsis protocols emphasize rapid stabilization and treatment over etiologic evaluation, some cases of endocarditis may be missed as sepsis with acute respiratory distress syndrome.