The following is a summary of "Extra-abdominal CT imaging indicates increased severity of illness in advanced age patients requiring emergency abdominal surgery," published in the March 2025 issue of ...

Sepsis was diagnosed based on The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3) using qSOFA and SOFA scales (Seymour et al., 2016). Patients were categorized into a ...

Sepsis (n=33) was the most common disease subgroup. Other subgroups ranged from respiratory (n=8) to renal (n=1)(figures 1 and 2). Mortality was the main studied outcome. Cardiac arrest was ...

Last weekend, when his condition deteriorated, doctors had warned that sepsis could become a major threat to his health. However, currently, doctors have said his condition is improving ...

The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester, ProPublica found. The surge in this life-threatening condition ...

Playboy magnate Hugh Hefner died of it in 2017, after having an E. coli infection, aged 91. Sepsis affects people of all ages and from all walks of life. It is the leading cause of death in ...

A mother's campaign following the death of her son at the hospital she worked at will lead to nationwide changes to the way sepsis is treated. Dr Deborah Burns' 22-year-old son William Hewes died ...