A team approach to antimicrobial stewardship resulted in decreased broad spectrum antibiotic use, reduced patient length of stay and cost reductions for a Pennsylvania hospital, according to a case ...

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 ...

A few more hours under the care of a registered nurse can improve a patient’s sepsis outcome, according to a new study out of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University. Led by ...

A few years ago, the World Health Organization estimated that blood poisoning, or sepsis, is involved in one in five deaths in the world. 11 million people die from sepsis each year, of which nearly 3 ...

The most popular data are vital signs, which include such things as blood pressure, heart rate, respiration rate, temperature, oxygen saturation and so forth. Often these data are fed into the EHR ...

Investigators found a higher overall health care burden among a large cohort of patients despite their recovery from sepsis, with potential long-term implications and higher risk of cardiovascular ...

Living with type 2 diabetes may double the risk of developing the potentially life-threatening condition sepsis. Men and those younger than 60 are particularly susceptible, according to a long-term ...