Long-term nursing home stays and deaths after hospitalization for sepsis went up during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with before it, a new study finds. People of all races and ethnicities ...

This new sepsis protocol is saving time and saving lives, according to this CNO. CNOs everywhere need to be concerned about sepsis. According to the CDC, 1.7 million American adults develop sepsis ...

The following article is written by Terry Andrus, president and CEO of East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika, Ala. On Christmas Eve, a young woman was admitted to the emergency department at East ...

Sepsis surveillance technology is one important key to reducing the cost of sepsis care CMS and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) estimate that sepsis costs the U.S. healthcare ...

Sepsis is a factor among roughly 1 in 3 hospital deaths, yet, as of last year, more than a quarter of hospitals didn’t have a formal sepsis committee in place and nearly half said they did not provide ...

Sepsis the body’s extreme, life-threatening response to infection and the leading cause of death in U.S. hospitals. According to the Sepsis Alliance, it’s also the most expensive condition to treat, ...

In a typical year, at least 1.7 million adults in America develop sepsis, a life-threatening response to infection. About 30% of severe sepsis patients don’t survive, and up to 50% of survivors suffer ...

The CDC issued new guidance to hospitals Thursday for managing sepsis and called on hospitals to do better at treating it. "Every hospital, regardless of size, location, and resources can strengthen ...

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has released two new tools for use in healthcare facilities, the Sepsis Prevention Assessment Tool for Nursing Homes (SPAT) and the Targeted Assessment for ...

Doctors must treat sepsis quickly to prevent organ failure. But demographic change and drug-resistant infections are making the condition harder to manage.

Sepsis is the body’s extreme reaction to an infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Bacterial infections are the most common cause of sepsis, according to the CDC ...