Our easy-to-read fact sheets provide clinicians with reliable information to share with patients and their caregivers. Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that happens when your immune system ...

Bacteremia is the presence of bacteria in the blood, which can lead to an infection. Sepsis is the body’s severe, potentially life-threatening response to an infection that includes inflammation ...

An Almost Perfect Sepsis Diagnosis. Diagnosing sepsis is challenging. However, a new method involving metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) and machine learning was able to identify 99% of ...

The Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) said that the “recognition of sepsis remains an urgent and persistent ...

“No question [sepsis is] a huge challenge,” said Chanu Rhee, MD, MPH, director of the Center for Sepsis Epidemiology and Prevention Studies at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston.

Sepsis detection and care also require coordination across departments and disciplines, a weak point in many health care settings. A new survey of over 5,000 hospitals found that about 73 percent ...

In fact, the survey found that only 73% reported having a sepsis committee charged with monitoring and reviewing sepsis care and outcomes. These committees were less common in smaller hospitals ...

As a reader service, we will dissect the report by category of event, starting with the biggest. The most serious problems associated with abortion, such as sepsis and infection, rank rather low.

Sepsis is a serious condition that can become life-threatening if not treated quickly. It happens when the body reacts to an infection in a way that harms its own organs, such as the heart, lungs ...

Experts are calling for a modification to the operational definition for sepsis, which they say could improve patient outcomes by allowing care providers to focus on severe patients and aid in ...

Sepsis kills more than breast, bowel and prostate cancer combined. Figures suggest that the UK has at least 245,000 cases of sepsis every year, about 48,000 of which prove fatal.