DENVER (KDVR) — Doctors at Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center in Denver are seeing an unexplained uptick in the number of obstetrics patients with strep A sepsis, a life-threatening condition that ...
The Surviving Sepsis Guidelines were first published in 2004, with updates issued in 2008 and 2012. In January, the newest updates were released and published in Critical Care Medicine and Intensive ...
Azithromycin administered to women in labor during planned vaginal delivery reduced their risks for sepsis and death, but not their newborns’ risks for sepsis and death, according to findings ...
Even in the face of increased pressure from regulators, many doctors have failed to fully embrace early screening and treatment protocols for sepsis, an infection-related complication that afflicts ...
The most popular data are vital signs, which include such things as blood pressure, heart rate, respiration rate, temperature, oxygen saturation and so forth. Often these data are fed into the EHR ...
A simple blood test can tell doctors when it is safe to stop antibiotics in patients recovering from sepsis, a review led by ...
Early recognition of sepsis remains challenging given heterogeneity in presentation. Existing screening tools have not yet ...