Sepsis: thrombocytopenia is bad, not recovering thrombocytopenia is too bad

Thrombocytopenia is a prognostic marker in the critically ill population [1], affecting, indistinctly, patients presenting low platelet count on admission or developing it during their stay in the ICU. It has been shown that a drop in platelet count to ≤50% of admission is associated with high death rates [2]. We aimed to observe the outcome of thrombocytopenic septic patients in our ICU.