HealthDay News — International guidelines are presented for the treatment of adults and children with sepsis and septic shock ...

An international team of experts recently came together to update sepsis care guidelines for adults for the first time since ...

1. The new guidelines place more emphasis on caring for sepsis patients after they are discharged from the intensive care unit. 2. The guidelines were also updated to represent greater geographic and ...

We suggest against using IV hydrocortisone to treat septic shock patients if adequate fluid resuscitation and vasopressor therapy are able to restore hemodynamic stability. If this is not achievable, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ED use of electronic sepsis alert systems significantly reduced sepsis-related mortality. Alert systems improved ...

Prolonged infusion of beta-lactam antibiotics for sepsis or septic shock tended to improve mortality compared with conventional intermittent infusion in the BLING III trial, and a meta-analysis ...

Sepsis is a deadly reaction to infection, one that can cause runaway inflammation and a cascade of organ damage. It is estimated to kill at least 350,000 Americans per year. Early detection of this ...

Sepsis, a leading cause of death worldwide, demands a shift from generalized treatment to personalized, predictive, and technology-enabled strategies to improve outcomes globally Sepsis is a ...

Researchers created an algorithm that uses electronic health records and standardized diagnostic criteria to identify and track pediatric sepsis across the United States.They estimated that there were ...