A study published in BMC Infectious Diseases has found that older patients with sepsis have lower 28-day mortality when blood ...

Findings from a MIMIC-IV database analysis challenge standard sepsis guidelines by suggesting moderately higher BP targets for patients aged 75 years or older.

Prolonged infusion of beta-lactam antibiotics for sepsis or septic shock tended to improve mortality compared with conventional intermittent infusion in the BLING III trial, and a meta-analysis ...

With more than 1 million American dying from sepsis annually, providers follow a set of protocols to mitigate a patient’s risk of sepsis. JAMA delves into the updated guidelines, titled Surviving ...

1. The new guidelines place more emphasis on caring for sepsis patients after they are discharged from the intensive care unit. 2. The guidelines were also updated to represent greater geographic and ...

Unlike adults, children don’t typically experience low blood pressure — a sign of septic shock — until later stages of the illness. Therefore, the guidelines outline a two-phase process to help ...

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 ...

In a typical year, at least 1.7 million adults in the US develop sepsis, and at least 350,000 die in the hospital or are moved into hospice care, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and ...

CHICAGO -- An international group of doctors is pushing for aggressive treatment to prevent half a million deaths worldwide from a common bloodstream infection. Sepsis kills more than 200,000 people ...

A national educational effort in Spain to promote appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock was associated with a lower rate of sepsis deaths in hospitals and improved guideline adherence, ...

The NICE guidelines on sepsis and acutely ill adults in hospital will be amended to state that the early warning score NEWS2 has been endorsed by NHS England. These changes will be addressed through ...