A team approach to antimicrobial stewardship resulted in decreased broad spectrum antibiotic use, reduced patient length of stay and cost reductions for a Pennsylvania hospital, according to a case ...

Emergency room patients who were flagged by an artificial-intelligence algorithm for possibly having sepsis received antibiotics sooner and had better outcomes, according to a peer-reviewed study ...

A University of Virginia-led team of researchers has made a discovery that may change sepsis treatment for patients in Africa.

Severe sepsis is a relatively common and potentially lethal condition among intensive care unit (ICU) patients. [1] To date, it is not known whether there is a relationship between the number of ...

A new report finds that de-escalation of antibiotics is uncommon among patients with sepsis, a serious condition that occurs often in older adults. In a Dec. 6 report that was published in Clinical ...

Sepsis is likely responsible for one in five deaths worldwide -- more than cancer -- each year, according to a new study. These “alarming” figures are more than double previous estimates. Sepsis also ...

This study, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, looked at hospital admissions from 2004 to 2010 among 914,000 patients with severe sepsis. Researchers found an ...

Patients who get sepsis while hospitalized are 43% more likely to return to the hospital for a stroke or any cardiac event, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Heart ...

Living with type 2 diabetes may double the risk of developing the potentially life-threatening condition sepsis. Men and those younger than 60 are particularly susceptible, according to a long-term ...

Worldwide sepsis infections and deaths are double what was previously estimated, a new study says. Sepsis also remains the most common cause of in-hospital deaths in the United States, costing the ...