Pediatric sepsis remains a significant cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. Recent guidance emphasizes bundled care, ...

The aim of this study was to determine if implementing an evidence-based, nurse-driven sepsis protocol would reduce acute care transfer (ACT) readmissions from an inpatient rehabilitation facility ...

A new emergency department screening protocol at UK HealthCare is helping care teams identify sepsis earlier and begin ...

Hospitals with more black patients saw smaller increases in compliance with new sepsis protocols than those that treat mainly white patients, a new study shows. The findings highlight a need to ...

This new sepsis protocol is saving time and saving lives, according to this CNO. CNOs everywhere need to be concerned about sepsis. According to the CDC, 1.7 million American adults develop sepsis ...

TUESDAY, July 24, 2018 -- In 2012, Rory Staunton, a 12-year-old living in New York City, became ill after an innocuous scrape to his arm during basketball practice. Five days later Rory was dead, ...

(HealthDay)—Completion of a one-hour sepsis bundle within one hour cuts mortality in pediatric patients, according to a study published in the July 24/31 issue of the Journal of the American Medical ...

More than one in 10 children hospitalized with sepsis die, but when a series of clinical treatments and tests is completed within an hour of its detection, the chances of survival increase ...

Approximately 1.5 million people in the U.S. get sepsis each year, and 250,000 Americans die from sepsis annually.1 Patients with severe sepsis can develop septic shock, which is a significantly ...

New York hospitals must report sepsis-related data to the state Department of Health. The establishment of mandatory sepsis protocols at all hospitals in New York State is estimated to have saved more ...

After 2013, when New York State mandated that hospitals follow protocols to treat sepsis, completion of the protocols increased and mortality declined. Whether these encouraging trends have equitably ...

Underlying all of this is a coding problem: sepsis was formally coded in only about 9% of COVID deaths, while clinical and ...