A simple blood test can tell doctors when it is safe to stop antibiotics in patients recovering from sepsis, a review led by ...

Sepsis, a complex syndrome driven by a dysregulated host response to infection, is closely linked to both metabolic and ...

What is systemic inflammation and how many different underlying causes are there? Firstly, it is necessary to make a distinction between systemic inflammation and Systemic Inflammatory Response ...

This article provides the resources for the bedside caregiver to conduct a focused physical assessment of the infant with suspected sepsis. The importance of obtaining a complete history to identify ...

The most popular data are vital signs, which include such things as blood pressure, heart rate, respiration rate, temperature, oxygen saturation and so forth. Often these data are fed into the EHR ...

Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed a novel computational algorithm to track the epidemiology of pediatric sepsis, allowing for the collection of more accurate ...

Bacterial sepsis is a life-threatening condition that arises when the body’s response to an infection injures its tissues and organs. Sepsis is caused by conditions that threaten the functional ...

Epic has made changes to its sepsis prediction model in a bid to improve its accuracy and make its alerts more meaningful to clinicians. An Epic spokesperson told Becker’s in an emailed statement that ...

The biggest electronic health record company in the United States, Epic Systems, claims it can solve a major problem for hospitals: identifying signs of sepsis, an often deadly complication from ...