An international team of experts recently came together to update sepsis care guidelines for adults for the first time since ...

Researchers have found in PRONTO randomized study that addition of procalcitonin to a sepsis diagnostic algorithm in the emergency department did not delay IV antibiotic administration, but ...

Clinicians agreed with the algorithm's recommendation in 47% of cases ...

Sepsis is one of the most common and lethal syndromes encountered in intensive care units (ICUs), and acute respiratory ...

Epic has made changes to its sepsis prediction model in a bid to improve its accuracy and make its alerts more meaningful to clinicians. An Epic spokesperson told Becker’s in an emailed statement that ...

Researchers created an algorithm that uses electronic health records and standardized diagnostic criteria to identify and track pediatric sepsis across the United States.They estimated that there were ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The largest hospital company in the United States will soon expand a program that uses computer algorithm to detect sepsis in patients faster than any human doctor or nurse. HCA Healthcare, which is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An algorithm using artificial intelligence can foresee severe sepsis and septic shock in hospital patients, ...