Patients who get sepsis while hospitalized are 43% more likely to return to the hospital for a stroke or any cardiac event, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Heart ...

Kevin Tracey, MD, was trained as a neurosurgeon. In 1985, at what was then New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center, an 11-month-old girl was brought in with severe burns after a boiling pot of ...

Don Smith remembers the moment he awoke in an intensive care unit after 13 days in a medically induced coma. His wife and daughter were at his bedside, and he thought it had been only a day since he ...

New York hospitals must report sepsis-related data to the state Department of Health. The establishment of mandatory sepsis protocols at all hospitals in New York State is estimated to have saved more ...

Sepsis patients fare better in hospitals with more sepsis cases Patients with sepsis are more likely to survive the life-threatening, costly condition when they are treated in a hospital that has a ...

(PUEBLO, Colo.) — UCHealth Parkview Medical Center and Parkview Pueblo West Hospitals are implementing one of the nation’s most advanced sepsis monitoring programs that can reduce sepsis-related ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

A simple blood test can tell doctors when it is safe to stop antibiotics in patients recovering from sepsis, a review led by ...

Providence has made significant strides in sepsis care, according to this chief clinical officer. The Providence health system and a hospital that is part of the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady ...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — A student-led organization is working to close a dangerous knowledge gap surrounding one of the leadi ...

About one third of individuals who die while hospitalized have sepsis during that hospitalization, yet more than 1400 hospitals in the United States report not having a sepsis program, according to ...

More than 1400 hospitals in the United States do not have a sepsis program to lead the intervention for a medical emergency that affects at least 1.7 million people, according to a recent survey by ...