In 82% of sepsis cases, the AI was accurate nearly 40% of the time. Previous attempts to use electronic tools to detect sepsis caught less than half that many cases and were accurate 2% to 5% of the ...

After more than three weeks of intensive treatment, the patient's pneumonia improved, breathing stabilised, sedation was ...

C reactive protein (CRP), a marker for the presence of an inflammatory process, is the most extensively studied marker for distinguishing bacterial from non-bacterial infections in febrile patients. A ...

Guide to a Systematic Physical Assessment in the Infant With Suspected Infection and/or Sepsis Mary A. Short, RN, MSN Disclosures Adv Neonatal Care. 2004;4 (3) 0 ...

Being cared for in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is a risk factor for late-onset sepsis due to invasive medical procedures and environmental issues. [9, 10] Table 4 outlines additional ...

Objectives Patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) may be at a higher risk of mortality from sepsis than patients without CHF due to insufficient cardiovascular reserves during systemic ...

Researchers identified specific proteins in umbilical cord blood that signal early onset sepsis in preterm newborns, enabling ...

Premade chicken Alfredo meals sold at Walmart and Kroger have been recalled after a listeria outbreak sickened 17 people, ...

The bacteria usually causes a meningitis - inflammation of the lining around the brain and spinal cord - or a bloodstream ...

A 14-year-old boy in South Carolina tragically died from meningococcemia, a rare and rapidly progressing blood infection.

Based on logistic regression, infected neonates were more exposed to carbapenem and mechanical ventilation than the control group. Cross transmission between infants contributed to the rise in the ...