Early communication regarding prognosis and goals of care is crucial to ensuring a patient-centred approach to managing high-risk conditions such as septic shock. Identifying people at risk of poor ...

The Ethics' Committee waived the need for informed consent, as this was an observational study. We retrospectively analyzed the clinical, hemodynamic, and biological data of all patients consecutively ...

Researchers have examined cellular crosstalk between the gut and liver during sepsis, helping us better understand sepsis ...

We recommend that a specific anatomic diagnosis of infection requiring emergent source control be identified or excluded as rapidly as possible in patients with sepsis or septic shock, and that any ...

SAN ANTONIO - – When many people hear the word sepsis, a response to infection, they might think of major surgery or trauma. A local mom is proof that it can stem from the smallest of sources. “Sepsis ...

A new experimental treatment has shown encouraging results in a recent clinical trial, offering new hope against one of medicine’s most challenging conditions.

A coroner has ruled on the death of Luke Abrahams, 20, who died of sepsis after feeling unwell with a sore throat in January ...

We suggest against using IV hydrocortisone to treat septic shock patients if adequate fluid resuscitation and vasopressor therapy are able to restore hemodynamic stability. If this is not achievable, ...