News tagged with severe sepsis

Study: Resiniferatoxin may increase sepsis-related mortality

Pain researchers from the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at Children's National Medical Center have discovered that resiniferatoxin, a drug that has shown early promise as an option for chronic, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patients who survive sepsis are more than 3 times as likely to have cognitive problems

Older adults who survive severe sepsis are at higher risk for long-term cognitive impairment and physical limitations than those hospitalized for other reasons, according to researchers from the University of Michigan Health ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Therapy helps improve outcomes for patients with severe sepsis

A preliminary study suggests that a therapy for severe sepsis or septic shock that included the use of an antibiotic-based "hemoperfusion" device to remove toxic products of bacteria from the blood in addition to conventional ...

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created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0