Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Sepsis is defined as a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection.

A locally trained model predicted sepsis early among hospitalized patients, with moderate accuracy, high false-positive rates, and modest lead times that varied with the definition of sepsis used, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Globally, sepsis infection is the leading cause of death in children, taking more than 3.4 million lives per year, according to the Sepsis Alliance — and 85% of these deaths occur before age 5. Sepsis ...

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 ...

WEDNESDAY, March 25, 2026 (HealthDay News) -- The Pediatric Sepsis Event (PSE) electronic health record-based definition for pediatric sepsis has higher sensitivity and comparable specificity to ...