When an adult patient develops sepsis, clinicians often prescribe corticosteroids to counteract the dysregulated immune ...

Septic shock is the most severe complication of sepsis, which is a reaction to an infection. A person with sepsis may go into septic shock, which can cause organ failure and other life threatening ...

The Sepsis-1, Sepsis-2, and Sepsis-3 definitions are for adult sepsis. The IPCC (International Pediatric Sepsis Consensus Conference) and Phoenix definitions are for pediatric sepsis. ARDS denotes ...

People with severe sepsis could one day be treated by having their blood filtered to remove a crucial protein that seems to ...

La Jolla Pharmaceutical won FDA approval Thursday for Giapreza, a drug that treats dangerously low blood pressure in adults with septic or other distributive shock. Here are three things to know. 1.

Prolonged infusion of beta-lactam antibiotics for sepsis or septic shock tended to improve mortality compared with conventional intermittent infusion in the BLING III trial, and a meta-analysis ...

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 ...

Investigators for this study analyzed outcomes among patients hospitalized with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) who have higher risks of adverse health outcomes, in particular sepsis and septic ...

Sepsis is a medical emergency. It can lead to organ failure and death. The earlier a person receives treatment, the more likely they are to survive. Sepsis occurs when the immune system has an extreme ...