Teaching hospitals provide care for children with sepsis at a greater cost without improving mortality rates, when compared to non-teaching hospitals, new data suggests. Researcher Benson Hsu, M.D., ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ORLANDO, Fla. — New data presented here suggest that teaching hospitals, when compared with non-teaching ...

The Sepsis-1, Sepsis-2, and Sepsis-3 definitions are for adult sepsis. The IPCC (International Pediatric Sepsis Consensus Conference) and Phoenix definitions are for pediatric sepsis. ARDS denotes ...

Sepsis is a potentially fatal or life changing syndrome wherein the body responds to an infection with a systemic immune response. Many clinicians consider sepsis to have three stages, starting with ...

Recently, the Boston Globe's Jessica Bartlett asked me about sepsis for an excellent story published a few days ago. In her story, Bartlett investigates why sepsis cases have dramatically increased in ...

The body’s extreme reaction to an infection is a life threatening condition known as sepsis. It can lead to low blood sugars (hypoglycemia) and high blood sugar (hyperglycemia). This condition can ...

In 1992, an international consensus panel defined sepsis as a systemic inflammatory response to infection, noting that sepsis could arise in response to multiple infectious causes and that septicemia ...