In the emergency department (ED) setting, the quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) score is better than previous criteria for predicting in-hospital mortality among patients with ...

Efforts to prevent sepsis need to be enhanced, according to researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham who published a study this month in Lancet Infectious Diseases. “This paper draws ...

A new study by Churpek and colleagues (the authors of the 2016 review [5]) supplies data to drive this debate. They sampled retrospective data from the University of Chicago over an 8-year period.

Barcelona, Spain: Two out of the four internationally-recommended screening tools used by emergency medical services are inadequate for recognising sepsis, according to new research presented at the ...

Half the screening tools used by emergency medics to detect sepsis in patients have been labelled “inadequate” by researchers. Experts said more must be done to support emergency services and improve ...

The term “sepsis” has been surrounded by ambiguity and controversy. The condition has instigated legislative policies (eg, “Rory’s Regulations” — a New York state-mandated protocol for ED treatment of ...

Two out of the four internationally-recommended screening tools used by emergency medical services are inadequate for recognizing sepsis, according to new research presented at the European Emergency ...

Today, Sepsis Alliance, the nation’s first and leading sepsis organization, announced the launch of The Sepsis Institute (TSI), an online learning platform that provides healthcare professionals ...