Palliative & end-of-life care · UKMLA & AKT
Multi-organ dysfunction syndrome
A free high-yield preview for the UKMLA Applied Knowledge Test. Below are the key points to recognise multi-organ dysfunction syndrome — the full SA Note notes add investigations, management, complications and 10 practice questions.
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- Multi-organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) - a clinical syndrome in which two or more organ systems fail progressively; not a disease itself but the final common pathway of severe illness (sepsis, trauma, pancreatitis, burns).
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