Teaching hospitals provide care for children with sepsis at a greater cost without improving mortality rates, when compared to non-teaching hospitals, new data suggests. Researcher Benson Hsu, M.D., ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ORLANDO, Fla. — New data presented here suggest that teaching hospitals, when compared with non-teaching ...

There are approximately 750,000 cases of sepsis a year in the United States, 7 and the frequency is increasing, given an aging population with increasing numbers of patients infected with ...

In 1992, an international consensus panel defined sepsis as a systemic inflammatory response to infection, noting that sepsis could arise in response to multiple infectious causes and that septicemia ...

Sepsis happens when your body has an overwhelming response to an infection. Your immune system reacts abnormally to the infection and starts to attack your body organs. This can lead to organ failure ...

Sepsis is when your body has a severe response to an infection. During sepsis, your immune system, which normally defends you from germs, starts to attack your body's tissues. This triggers ...