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 ...

Sepsis is a life-threatening immune response to infection that leads to organ dysfunction, which is what happens in seriously ill COVID-19 patients, expert says. Seriously ill COVID-19 patients are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Signs of sepsis Sepsis is a life-threatening condition in which the body overreacts to an infection and starts attacking its own ...

Septic shock is the most severe complication of sepsis, which is a reaction to an infection. A person with sepsis may go into septic shock, which can cause organ failure and other life threatening ...

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 ...

ATLANTA-- The incidence of sepsis -- a severe, whole-body immune response to infection -- has increased by an annualized average of 8.7% a year in the U.S. over the past 22 years, according to ...