Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The 30-day mortality benefit of sepsis antibiotic treatment within 3 hours was larger in some patient ...

Waiting longer than five hours to give antibiotics to a pediatric patient with sepsis increases the risk of death, according to a study published June 5 in JAMA Network Open. For the study, ...

People believed to have sepsis who take piperacillin-tazobactam (Zosyn) and vancomycin have a 5% absolute mortality increase at 90 days compared with those who take cefepime and vancomycin, a new ...

USA: Researchers have found in a new study that de-escalation of empiric broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy on day 4 in ...

Patients older than 65 years who have urinary tract infections (UTIs) are at increased risk for sepsis and death within 60 days from UTI if not treated with immediate antibiotic therapy. Those older ...

Changing the way antibiotics are given to adult patients with sepsis will save thousands of lives a year globally, according to research by The University of Queensland and The George Institute for ...

Daily assessment of procalcitonin (PCT), rather than standard care alone, led to patients spending significantly less time on antibiotics cumulatively in the first 28 days (9.8 days vs 10.7 days, ...

About half of suspected sepsis cases account for broad-spectrum antibiotic use — but a lot of these cases don’t require the medications at all, according to a study published June 27 in JAMA Network ...

In emergency rooms and intensive care units across the country, clinicians make split-second decisions about which antibiotics to give a patient when a life-threatening infection is suspected. A new U ...

PATIENTS. SEPSIS IS A LIFE THREATENING EMERGENCY CAUSED BY THE BODY’S EXTREME REACTION TO INFECTION. UNLIKE A MORE SIMPLE INFECTION, IS DYSREGULATED AND AS A RESULT, CAN LEAD TO ORGAN DAMAGE. DOCTOR ...

"Real Housewives of Orange County" star Vicki Gunvalson, 62, is sharing her recent health scare after she was hospitalized with sepsis, a potentially deadly disease that results from the body’s ...

The care given to a 45-year-old man with disabilities who died from sepsis after not being given the correct medication for ...