With more than 1 million American dying from sepsis annually, providers follow a set of protocols to mitigate a patient’s risk of sepsis. JAMA delves into the updated guidelines, titled Surviving ...

Updated international guidelines for managing sepsis and septic shock have been released by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.

These "major new contributions strengthen the evidence" in support of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines recommending prolonged infusion of beta-lactams for adults with sepsis or septic ...

Procalcitonin-guided antibiotic cessation is already endorsed by the Surviving Sepsis guidelines, but conflicting and poor-quality data required a demure, weak recommendation.

A sepsis survivor shares her story after narrowly escaping death from septic shock—a condition that affects 1.7 million Americans every year. The post “Here’s How I Knew I Had Sepsis”: A ...

A new study found that septic shock patients who have heart failure with reduced ejection fraction were less likely to receive guideline-recommended intravenous fluids compared with patients with ...

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 European ...

The screening tools recommended in the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines differed greatly in terms of which and how many patients were identified as possibly having sepsis." ...

Researchers characterized frailty among patients surviving sepsis at hospital discharge, identifying risk factors linked to the development of frailty.

Adhering to hospital protocol for surviving sepsis guidelines helps to reinforce the message that the primary focus of early sepsis identification is initiation of timely treatment in the ...