Both the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases in hospitalized patients remain prominent clinical challenges and are associated with a substantial financial burden for healthcare systems.

Sepsis, a common complication following burns, trauma, and major surgery, remains the leading cause of death among critically ill patients. Globally, there are about 48.9 million sepsis patients and ...

In a healthcare world in which amazing things are increasingly possible — surgery through just a few tiny incisions, successful replacements of entire organs, treatment of once-fatal infections — ...

The Sepsis-1, Sepsis-2, and Sepsis-3 definitions are for adult sepsis. The IPCC (International Pediatric Sepsis Consensus Conference) and Phoenix definitions are for pediatric sepsis. ARDS denotes ...

This is the fourth article in a Health Affairs Forefront short series “Understanding And Addressing Pre-Hospital Diagnostic Delays.” As the introductory article, “Building the Evidence to Assure ...

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We will update the NICE guideline on sepsis. The update will focus on the risk stratification of adults to identify adults at risk of severe illness or death from sepsis, and the appropriate timing ...

Sepsis is the main cause of nonrelapse mortality, and there are no published data on applicability of supportive care protocols from high-income countries such as Sri Lanka. The aim of the study was ...