The updated guidance for people aged 16 and over recommends using smaller amounts of intravenous fluid initially for those at risk of serious illness or death due to sepsis. Patients should be ...

Sepsis is a serious complication of an infection that can be life threatening. Sepsis happens when your body has an overwhelming response to an infection. Your immune system reacts abnormally to the ...

The singer developed sepsis in 2023 after contracting a bacterial infection. Madonna is opening up about her health struggles in a new interview. The "Queen of Pop," now 67, sat down with podcast host ...

When most people think of dreaded diseases or conditions, cancer, heart disease or dementia usually top the list. But far fewer realize there’s a silent killer claiming hundreds of thousands of lives ...

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September is Sepsis Awareness Month, and MedStar Health in Maryland reports that too many still don't know about it and its symptoms. Nearly half of adults either have no idea what sepsis is or have ...

Credit: Getty Images To address the gap in sepsis management bundle compliance at a community hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, the authors created an intervention targeting patients who presented with ...

The life-threatening condition sepsis occurs when an infection triggers a chain reaction throughout the body. Inflammation can lead to blood clots and leaking blood vessels, and can ultimately cause ...

4:10 Health Matters: Sepsis kills more people than heart disease and cancer A team of Canadian researchers has created a test they say could quickly predict if a patient is going to develop sepsis, a ...

Bacteria Gram positive in sputum gram stain.red background. Both sepsis and bacteremia involve bacteria in the bloodstream. Bacteremia generally is not a serious condition, but sepsis can be ...

In the years since the Supreme Court overturned the right to abortion and since Texas instituted one of the country’s strictest abortion bans, the state has seen an increased rate of sepsis among ...

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 ...