The Sepsis “Sniffer” Algorithm, a digital sepsis alert embedded in an EHR, is a useful tool but it may not be a viable alternative to the Nurse Screening Tool, a manual sepsis alert, according to a ...

Researchers developed a machine learning model that could identify children in the ED who were at risk for developing sepsis ...

The most popular data are vital signs, which include such things as blood pressure, heart rate, respiration rate, temperature, oxygen saturation and so forth. Often these data are fed into the EHR ...

Sepsis, an overwhelming infection, remains among hospitals’ most difficult conditions to identify and treat. Algorithms within electronic medical records have been developed to help clinicians. So how ...

Canadian scientists have developed a blood test and portable device that can determine the onset of sepsis faster and more accurately than existing methods. Published today in Nature Communications, ...

Sepsis is a deadly reaction to infection, one that can cause runaway inflammation and a cascade of organ damage. It is estimated to kill at least 350,000 Americans per year. Early detection of this ...

Sepsis kills nearly 270,000 Americans each year1. Mortality from sepsis increases by as much as 8% for every hour treatment is delayed2. Many hospitals deploy automated systems as part of a sepsis ...

Barcelona, Spain: Two out of the four internationally-recommended screening tools used by emergency medical services are inadequate for recognising sepsis, according to new research presented at the ...