Studies that have evaluated the use of intravenous vitamin C in adults with sepsis who were receiving vasopressor therapy in the intensive care unit (ICU) have shown mixed results with respect to the ...

Prolonged infusion of beta-lactam antibiotics for sepsis or septic shock tended to improve mortality compared with conventional intermittent infusion in the BLING III trial, and a meta-analysis ...

Intravenous acetaminophen is safe, but does not improve number of days alive and free of organ support. HealthDay News — For adults with sepsis, intravenous acetaminophen is safe but does not ...

The nonprofit consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen urged federal health officials to stop a nationwide sepsis study in an Aug. 28 letter to the National Institutes of Health, arguing the ...

Patients with a sepsis alert were more likely to have serum lactate tested and intravenous fluid ordered, reducing in-hospital mortality rates. HealthDay News — Electronic sepsis screening among ...

Dawn Nagel, a nurse at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif., knew she was going to have a busy day, with more than a dozen patients showing signs of sepsis. They included a 61-year-old mechanic with ...

Dr. Jatinder Lachar, internal medicine hospitalist at The Queen’s Medical Center says sepsis is an infection that can travel throughout the body and become life-threatening. The infection can be ...

September is Sepsis Awareness Month, with World Sepsis Day on September 13, and WWL has been promoting sepsis recognition and management, a high priority for the Trust, particularly so over the past ...