ALLMedicine™ Bacterial Sepsis Center

Feb 25th, 2021 - Bacterial sepsis is a major global cause of death. However, the pathophysiology of sepsis has remained poorly understood. In industrialized nations, Staphylococcus aureus represents the pathogen most commonly associated with mortality due to sepsi...

Feb 11th, 2021 - Early initiation of effective antibiotic therapy is vitally important for saving the lives of critically ill patients with sepsis or septic shock. The susceptibility of the infecting pathogen and the ability of the selected dosage regimen to safel...

Feb 8th, 2021 - Sepsis, a leading cause for intensive care unit admissions, causes both an acute encephalopathy and chronic brain dysfunction in survivors. A history of sepsis is also a risk factor for future development of dementia symptoms. Similar neuropatholo...

Feb 6th, 2021 - During the second surge of COVID-19 in France (fall 2020), we assessed the expression of monocyte CD169 (i.e., Siglec-1, one of the numerous IFN-stimulated genes) upon admission to intensive care units of 45 patients with RT-PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV...

Jan 27th, 2021 - Bacterial sepsis is a life-threatening disease and a significant clinical problem caused by host responses to a microbial infection. Sepsis is a leading cause of death worldwide and, importantly, a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in c...

Nov 30th, 2018 - Early-onset sepsis (EOS) remains a serious and often fatal illness among infants born preterm, particularly among newborn infants of the lowest gestational age. Currently, most preterm infants with very low birth weight are treated empirically wit.

Dec 11th, 2017 - Often overlooked and more difficult to identify than many other life-threatening conditions, sepsis causes one-third to one-half of all deaths in U. S.

Feb 16th, 2016 - Improvements in usual care can largely be attributed to the emphasis that the EGDT study placed on caring for patients with sepsis. Patients in the usual care arms of the ProCESS, ARISE, and ProMISE trials received aggressive intravenous fluids an.

Feb 25th, 2021 - Bacterial sepsis is a major global cause of death. However, the pathophysiology of sepsis has remained poorly understood. In industrialized nations, Staphylococcus aureus represents the pathogen most commonly associated with mortality due to sepsi...

Feb 11th, 2021 - Early initiation of effective antibiotic therapy is vitally important for saving the lives of critically ill patients with sepsis or septic shock. The susceptibility of the infecting pathogen and the ability of the selected dosage regimen to safel...

Feb 8th, 2021 - Sepsis, a leading cause for intensive care unit admissions, causes both an acute encephalopathy and chronic brain dysfunction in survivors. A history of sepsis is also a risk factor for future development of dementia symptoms. Similar neuropatholo...

Feb 6th, 2021 - During the second surge of COVID-19 in France (fall 2020), we assessed the expression of monocyte CD169 (i.e., Siglec-1, one of the numerous IFN-stimulated genes) upon admission to intensive care units of 45 patients with RT-PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV...

Jan 27th, 2021 - Bacterial sepsis is a life-threatening disease and a significant clinical problem caused by host responses to a microbial infection. Sepsis is a leading cause of death worldwide and, importantly, a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in c...

Aug 15th, 2018 - Platelet-transmitted bacterial infections persist as a cause of transfusion-associated morbidity and mortality, according to researchers writing in Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report. They describe 2 separate clusters of platelet transfusion-a.

Jun 14th, 2017 - MADRID – Whole blood multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) holds considerable promise as a rapid noninvasive test to improve diagnosis of life-threatening bacterial infections in children with suspected sepsis yet negative blood cultures, Clar.

Mar 27th, 2014 - Only 1. 9% of tumor patients who did not have prophylactic antibiotics developed febrile urinary tract infections after flexible cystoscopy, according to research published in the April issue of European Urology.

Jan 1st, 2010 - A testing method that uses positive blood cultures and an automated DNA-based polymerase chain reaction and microarray system accurately identified bacteria in sepsis much faster than a standard culture-based process. The test identified bacterial.

Oct 16th, 2008 - ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 16 -- The FDA today announced that efalizumab (Raptiva) must carry a boxed warning to highlight the risk of life-threatening infections, including progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). The warning will also include...