A team of U.S. and international pediatric medical experts developed a new definition of sepsis in children at the Society for Critical Care Medicine’s 2024 Critical Care Congress being held in ...

Sepsis is a life-threatening immune response to infection that leads to organ dysfunction, which is what happens in seriously ill COVID-19 patients, expert says. Seriously ill COVID-19 patients are ...

Sepsis is a leading cause of death in hospitals, spurring investigations into how preventable it might be. But according to research published in JAMA Network Open Friday, significant innovation is ...

Clinician-scientists from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago were among a diverse, international group of experts tasked by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) with ...

ATLANTA-- The incidence of sepsis -- a severe, whole-body immune response to infection -- has increased by an annualized average of 8.7% a year in the U.S. over the past 22 years, according to ...

Neutropenic sepsis is a body-wide reaction that can occur when a person with an infection or injury also has a low level of immune cells called neutrophils. Neutropenic sepsis is a medical emergency ...