ORLANDO -- For children with suspected or confirmed infection admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), the Phoenix sepsis criteria could be used to identify those at the highest risk of ...

Covert, 19, never thought she could face the same fate. She got her flu shot yearly without question. But last ...

"I didn’t even know what sepsis was until it happened to us ... With a six-and-a-half year age difference, Sinead and Tracey bickered as children when Tracey sneaked into her big sister ...

Objectives: In the past decade, guidelines have been developed for the early detection and management of severe sepsis in children and neonates. However, severe sepsis continues to be a ...

Objective To 1) describe the characteristics and outcomes over time of PICU patients with severe sepsis within the dedicated U.S. children's hospitals, 2) identify patient subgroups at risk for ...

A new interactive tool from AHRQ allows researchers, policymakers and others to explore trends in hospital care for sepsis, a life-threatening condition that is among the most expensive to treat in U.

MIS-C is a serious inflammatory shock that affects children. It can occur several weeks after a COVID infection and can be ...

Robert Astley died from sepsis after sustaining a burn to his left thigh which became ulcerated while under the care of HMP Norwich. He had been serving life in prison for sexually assaulting and ...

This flu season has been particularly bad for children, with many experiencing severe complications such as pneumonia, ...

But for a small number of children, the infection triggers strange behavioral changes known as PANDAS syndrome. PANDAS stands for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with ...