A team of U.S. and international pediatric medical experts developed a new definition of sepsis in children at the Society for Critical Care Medicine’s 2024 Critical Care Congress being held in ...
Sepsis is a life-threatening immune response to infection that leads to organ dysfunction, which is what happens in seriously ill COVID-19 patients, expert says. Seriously ill COVID-19 patients are ...
Researchers in China validated the updated SOFA-2 score specifically in sepsis using data from a multicenter randomized trial ...
Sepsis is a life-threatening complication arising from an infection, which occurs when the body’s response to the infection damages its own tissues and organs. Sepsis causes multiple organ failure and ...
Neutropenic sepsis is a body-wide reaction that can occur when a person with an infection or injury also has a low level of immune cells called neutrophils. Neutropenic sepsis is a medical emergency ...
ATLANTA-- The incidence of sepsis -- a severe, whole-body immune response to infection -- has increased by an annualized average of 8.7% a year in the U.S. over the past 22 years, according to ...
Sepsis is one of the greatest global challenges in modern intensive care medicine. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines sepsis as a life-threatening multiple organ failure (MOF) resulting from ...