mortality rate

Examples of mortality rate in the following topics:

• Sepsis and Septic Shock

  • The mortality rate from septic shock is approximately 25–50%.
  • The mortality rate from sepsis is approximately 40% in adults, and 25% in children, and is significantly greater when left untreated for more than seven days.

• Amoebic Meningoencephalitis

  • The disease is both exceptionally rare and highly lethal: there have been fewer than 200 confirmed cases in recorded medical history as of 2004, and 300 cases as of 2008, with an in-hospital case fatality rate of ~97% (3% patient survival rate).
  • Its high mortality rate is largely blamed on the unusually non-suggestive symptomology in its early stages, compounded by the necessity of microbial culture of the cerebrospinal fluid to effect a positive diagnosis.

• Defective Viruses

  • In combination with hepatitis B virus, hepatitis D has the highest mortality rate of all the hepatitis infections of 20%.

• Anthrax

  • Inhalation anthrax has a 97% mortality rate.

• The Vocabulary Epidemiology

  • Although sometimes loosely expressed simply as the number of new cases during a time period, it is better expressed as the incidence rate which is the number of new cases per population in a given time period.
  • Incidence should not be confused with prevalence, which is a measure of the total number of cases of disease in a population rather than the rate of occurrence of new cases.
  • In epidemiology, the term morbidity rate can refer to either the incidence rate, or the prevalence of a disease, or medical condition.
  • This measure of sickness is contrasted with the mortality rate of a condition, which is the proportion of people dying during a given time interval.
  • Compare and contrast the following concepts: epidemic, endemic, pandemic; incidence vs prevalence; morbidity vs mortality; incubation, latency, acute, decline and convalescent periods

• Current Epidemics

  • The declaration of an epidemic usually requires a good understanding of a baseline rate of incidence; epidemics for certain diseases, such as influenza, are defined as reaching some defined increase in incidence above this baseline.
  • However, the WHO's declaration of a pandemic level 6 was an indication of spread, not severity; the strain actually having a lower mortality rate than common flu outbreaks.

• The Cardiovascular System

  • The immune response to the bacteria can cause sepsis and septic shock, which has a relatively high mortality rate.

• Planktonic Food Webs

  • Changes in the vertical stratification of the water column, the rate of temperature-dependent biological reactions, and the atmospheric supply of nutrients are expected to have important impacts on future phytoplankton productivity.
  • Additionally, changes in the mortality of phytoplankton due to rates of zooplankton grazing may be significant.

• Planktonic Communities

  • Changes in the vertical stratification of the water column, the rate of temperature-dependent biological reactions, and the atmospheric supply of nutrients are expected to have important impacts on future phytoplankton productivity.
  • Additionally, changes in the mortality of phytoplankton due to rates of zooplankton grazing may be significant.

• Cost and Prevention of Resistance

  • Patients who are infected with bacterial strains resistant to more than one type or class of drugs (multidrug-resistant organisms, MDRO) often have an increased risk of prolonged illness, extended hospital stay, and mortality.