Nurses helped improve their colleagues' understanding of sepsis at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia. Over the past several years, themed escape rooms for team-building events has been ...

Sepsis and Mortality: Sober Facts Elements of a Sepsis Screening Program Principles for a Successful Pilot Program References Principles for a Successful Pilot Program Several important considerations ...

Dawn Nagel, a nurse at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif., knew she was going to have a busy day, with more than a dozen patients showing signs of sepsis. They included a 61-year-old mechanic with ...

Increased nurse staffing levels and intensivist hours were linked to significantly lower sepsis rates at a sample of Massachusetts hospitals, a study published in Critical Care Nurse found. The study ...

Freeing up nurses to spend more time on patient care may reduce sepsis deaths among the Medicare population, a study published May 27 in JAMA Health Forum suggests. A team led by researchers at Emory ...

Since Froedtert Hospital adopted the test, the mortality rate for sepsis patients has decreased by 42% and hospital length of ...

(WISH) — Sepsis causes 1 in 5 deaths globally, the World Health Organization says, and the smallest of cuts can lead to a life-threatening medical emergency. One nursing program saved a woman from the ...

Researchers at the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR) at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, conducting independent research on whether pending nurse staffing ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are more than 1.7 million cases of sepsis every year, leading to 300,000 annual deaths. "Sepsis is a potentially lethal condition; ...

Each additional hour of care per day provided by registered nurses to Medicare beneficiaries admitted to an acute care hospital with a sepsis diagnosis was associated with a 3% decreased risk of ...

SEATTLE, Wash. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - Each year, about 1.7 million adults in the US develop sepsis and it kills approximately 350 thousand. Diagnosis is key for preventing organ failure and even death.