Sepsis is a condition in which the body responds improperly. More specifically, the infection causes the organs in the body to shut down. This is a serious illness which could lead to extremely low ...

Despite the best efforts of intensive care unit (ICU) staff and physicians and the most advanced life support, Dr. Bryan Yipp ...

The immune system is usually equipped to handle most bacterial infections, but certain cases of severe infection can leave a person extremely vulnerable when certain blood cells fail to be ...

The use of algorithms has saved lives at the University of Missouri Health Care. The health system put in place an early-warning system tied to the EHR to alert rapid-response teams of a patient's ...

Sepsis is the deadliest and most expensive condition treated in hospital critical care units, with septic shock carrying a 34% mortality rate. Early sepsis detection is critical to saving lives and ...

According to the NHS, many lives across the country could be saved with the new and improved digital alert system for possible cases of sepsis at hospitals. Sepsis is a form of severe infection that ...

Mice lacking a specific component of the immune system are completely resistant to sepsis, a potentially fatal complication of infection, molecular microbiologists report. The discovery suggests that ...