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 ...

An international research team led by Tell Bennett, MD, MS, professor of biomedical informatics and pediatric critical care at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, released new diagnostic ...

Early recognition of sepsis remains challenging given heterogeneity in presentation. Existing screening tools have not yet ...

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 ...

July 3, 2002 - A survey of more than 1,000 physicians in Europe and the United States illustrates the need for a standardized definition of sepsis, according to the Society of Critical Care Medicine ...

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 ...

Sepsis scores are not validated in pregnancy; delays increase mortality. If intrauterine infection is suspected, induce ...

A single course of antibiotics raises the risk of developing sepsis by 70 per cent for a year after taking them, a new study of NHS patients has revealed. Experts found that the risk of sepsis, which ...

Catching the signs of impending critical illness is tricky, physicians say. July 20, 2012— -- A child gets a minor scrape while playing sports at school. The child and parents ignore it, but the ...

In 2006, Cheryl Douglass, who had recently retired, returned home one afternoon and suddenly started feeling ill. It was as if she had the flu. She sat in an emergency department for hours waiting to ...