Researchers compared Area Deprivation Index (ADI) to Healthy Places Index (HPI) in order to assess neighborhood disadvantage as a predictor of in-hospital mortality among sepsis patients.
Researchers compared Area Deprivation Index (ADI) to Healthy Places Index (HPI) in order to assess neighborhood disadvantage as a predictor of in-hospital mortality among sepsis patients.
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Adults who were hospitalized for a severe infection, such as respiratory infections or sepsis, were more than twice as likely to develop heart failure years later.
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Patients hospitalized for respiratory infections or sepsis had more than double the odds of heart failure later in life.
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A protein called angiopoietin-2 (ANGPT2) can both inhibit and encourage blood vessel changes critical for sepsis.
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The test can both identify bacterial and viral infections and assess the need for critical care in patients with suspected infection or sepsis.
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Researchers found that medical ozone therapy can improve lung function in mice with sepsis-induced acute lung injury.
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The FDA has granted Breakthrough Device Designation to a sepsis risk assessment test designed to support rapid clinical decisions.
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The funding will accelerate the rollout of a rapid diagnostic test that helps emergency departments quickly identify and treat sepsis.
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The COVID-19 pandemic led to a noticeable rise in sepsis-related hospitalizations, hospital costs, and in-hospital mortality, particularly for patients with a COVID-19 diagnosis.
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The newly cleared test detects sepsis earlier than current standards by measuring levels of the pancreatic stone protein biomarker.
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The AI tool actively involves clinicians by identifying missing patient data and suggesting the most critical information needed to improve sepsis risk predictions.
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bioMérieux received US FDA 510(k) clearance for its Vitek Reveal AST System, which reports results directly from positive blood cultures.
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In patients most at risk for organ damage, the drug lessened the need for assisted ventilation and showed a slight decrease in mortality.
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Roche will commercially distribute Prenosis Inc’s Sepsis ImmunoScore, the first-ever FDA De Novo authorized AI diagnostic tool for sepsis.
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Administering azithromycin to pregnant women who deliver vaginally is a cost-saving treatment for reducing maternal sepsis, death or infection in developing countries.
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An AI algorithm used in emergency departments at UC San Diego Health allowed clinicians to quickly predict sepsis infection in high-risk patients and reduce mortality, according to a new study, published in npj Digital Medicine.
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The Phoenix criteria define sepsis as severe response to infection involving organ dysfunction, as opposed to an earlier focus on systemic inflammation.
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An initiative from the Society of Critical Care Medicine aims to decrease sepsis mortality in low-resource settings, where as much as 84% of sepsis-related deaths occur.
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Even when the oxygen level is normal, inflammation and the reaction to hypoxia are connected; the key is individual sensitivity to hypoxia.
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Northwestern Medicine’s Delnor Hospital has seen a 10% increase in the total number of sepsis patients and a 33% increase in patients who arrived in severe sepsis in the last fiscal year.
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A single oral dose of azithromycin can reduce the risk of postpartum sepsis and death among women who deliver vaginally by one-third, according to a large multi-country published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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There were no significant differences in 90-day mortality rates between two common treatment strategies for sepsis, according to a phase 3 clinical trial published in the NEJM.
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Researchers who identified a novel mechanism for platelet activation in pathogenic blood clotting are now turning their attention to sepsis.
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Pathogenomix Inc’s Patho-Seq is designed for the rapid detection and identification of bacteria for a broad list of clinical conditions and sample types, including sepsis from whole blood samples and bacterial meningitis from CSF.
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