Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed a new algorithm that can track the epidemiology of sepsis among pediatric patients, allowing for more accurate data collection ...

Sepsis is a deadly reaction to infection, one that can cause runaway inflammation and a cascade of organ damage. It is estimated to kill at least 350,000 Americans per year. Early detection of this ...

Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed a novel computational algorithm to track the epidemiology of pediatric sepsis, allowing for the collection of more accurate ...

Sepsis the body’s extreme, life-threatening response to infection and the leading cause of death in U.S. hospitals.

For a patient with sepsis - which kills more Americans every year than AIDS and breast and prostate cancer combined - hours can make the difference between life and death. The quest for early ...

For a patient with sepsis—which kills more Americans every year than AIDS and breast and prostate cancer combined—hours can make the difference between life and death. The quest for early diagnosis of ...

A machine-learning algorithm has the capability to identify hospitalized patients at risk for severe sepsis and septic shock using data from electronic health records (EHRs), according to a new study.

Early recognition of sepsis in hospitalized patients and timely, protocol-driven interventions are spelled out for critical care nurses in new international guidelines. "Critical care nurses play an ...

The results of the present study show that after implementation of a PCT-guided algorithm in 2005 length of antibiotic therapy in surgical patients with severe sepsis or septic shock was reduced by an ...