Sepsis is poorly understood, difficult to identify, and even harder to predict. Consistent stakeholder involvement may be key to identifying precisely where and how a sepsis early warning system could ...

A nurse at El Camino Health demonstrates the FloPatch device. Once placed on the patient's neck, the Food and Drug Administration-approved device assesses blood flow in the carotid arteries and ...

New research may help to explain why anticoagulant therapies have largely failed to extend the lives of patients with sepsis. The study shows that fibrin, a key product of the blood clotting process, ...

In the presence of infection, the treatment principles are to remove the source and, while doing so, support the patient’s vital functions. In sepsis, removal of the source includes antibiotics, ...

Long before COVID-19, overwhelming infection, sepsis, often bacterial rather than viral, has been a leading cause of death in US hospitals. Sepsis has attracted the concern of Medicare, which requires ...

Deaths from sepsis declined during the 2 years following implementation of a state mandate requiring hospitals to follow sepsis care bundles and report on patient outcomes, according to a study ...

SEPSIS involving a vascular prosthesis, fortunately rare, is a most serious complication of arterial surgery. Although there are clinical and experimental examples of periprosthetic sepsis that have ...