Have Australian researchers discovered the secret to treating sepsis?
Affecting millions of hospitalised patients across the world each year, sepsis occurs when the body’s immune response to…
High BMI and poor physical fitness in adolescence linked to severe bacterial infections in adulthood
High BMI and poor physical fitness during later adolescence increase the risk of both contracting and dying from…
Lung to gut movement of hospital-acquired bacterium raises the risk of sepsis
A hospital-acquired bacterium that causes serious infections can move from the lungs to the gut inside the same…
Platelet-to-hemoglobin ratio as a novel prognostic biomarker in sepsis-associated AKI: a multicenter cohort study | BMC Nephrology
Singer M, Deutschman CS, Seymour CW, et al. The third international consensus definitions for sepsis and septic shock…
Unlocking the metabolic and anti-inflammatory therapeutic potential of lactate in critically ill patients | Critical Care
Lactate administration and sepsis Sepsis is a major cause of mortality worldwide [52]. Hyperlactatemia is recognized as a…
Man returns to boxing after sepsis forces partial amputations of his arms and legs
When Adam Smith fell sick with the flu two years ago, no-one could have predicted how significantly it…
Coroner finds Monash Health provided unreasonable care before toddler Dio Kemp’s death
The mother of a three-year-old girl who died with sepsis has called for health professionals to do better,…