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Sepsis, which is sometimes called blood poisoning, is essentially the body's overreaction to an infection.

Vitamin C Fails Again As Treatment For Sepsis

Feb 24, 2021
Sepsis is one of the most common causes of death for hospitalized patients. The search for an effective treatment has been frustrating.
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Health care workers assist a COVID-19 patient in Spain. Some evidence from Europe and China suggests an overzealous immune response may be contributing to the severe illness in some patients.

Why Some COVID-19 Patients Crash: The Body's Immune System Might Be To Blame

Apr 07, 2020
An overblown immune response could be killing a portion of the sick, and some doctors think that new treatments being tested could help at least some of those patients.
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Sepsis, or blood poisoning, occurs when the body overreacts to infection. It's a leading cause of death worldwide.

Vitamin Treatment For Sepsis Fails In Large Trial

Jan 17, 2020
Hopes were high that a cocktail of vitamins and steroids could treat a deadly disease that kills some 270,000 Americans annually. Trial results were disappointing.
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Sepsis arises when the body overreacts to an infection, and blood vessels throughout the body become leaky. Researchers now estimate that about 11 million people worldwide died with sepsis in 2017 alone — that's about 20% of all deaths.

Stealth Disease Likely To Blame For 20% Of Worldwide Deaths

Jan 16, 2020
Sepsis, or blood poisoning, arises when the body overreacts to an infection. An analysis finds that it may be involved in 20% of deaths worldwide, twice the proportion previously estimated.
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A bacterial blood infection can lead to a deadly overreaction called sepsis.

'Tantalizing' Results For A Test Of Vitamin C For Sepsis

Oct 01, 2019
The biggest study published to date on vitamin C as a treatment for sepsis couldn't say it helped patients. But the paper does hint that people who got the treatment were more likely to survive.
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Bacteria (purple) in the bloodstream can trigger sepsis, a life-threatening illness.

Regulations That Mandate Sepsis Care Appear To Have Worked In New York

Jul 16, 2019
Sepsis, the body's overreaction to infection, strikes more than a million Americans a year and kills more than 250,000. Evidence suggests that regulations can improve its diagnosis and patient care.
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Shauna Pelfrey talks to her husband, Dorian, while preparing for his dialysis appointment.

Vitamin Treatment For Sepsis Is Put To The Test

Dec 12, 2018
Researchers have devised a large clinical study to quickly assess whether one doctor's apparently effective treatment for deadly sepsis is a fluke or worthy of widespread use.
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Dr. E. Wesley Ely at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, has developed a checklist of procedures in the ICU that reduces long-term mental deficits by easing sedation, getting patients up and around earlier and helping them stay oriented to

How To Prevent Brain-Sapping Delirium In The ICU

Oct 10, 2018
People who suffer from prolonged delirium in the hospital are likely to develop long-term mental problems like dementia. Doctors have come up with techniques they say can reduce delirium in the ICU.
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Without including a "control group" of sepsis patients who get the usual mix of drugs and fluids, even a big study comparing two other experimental approaches won't deliver helpful answers, critics say.

Critics Trying To Stop A Big Study Of Sepsis Say The Research Puts Patients At Risk

Aug 27, 2018
The consumer advocacy group Public Citizen also says the multicenter study of life-threatening sepsis will at best produce confusing results. A Harvard doctor and designer of the research disagrees.
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Marik's solution includes a steroid (left) combined with vitamin C (right) and a few other ingredients.

Can A Cocktail Of Vitamins And Steroids Cure A Major Killer In Hospitals?

May 11, 2018
Two big studies aim to rigorously test what could be a revolutionary treatment for a common and deadly disease: sepsis. Many doctors are awaiting the results before changing their practice.
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Dr. David Carlbom, a critical care pulmonologist at UW Medicine's Harborview Medical Center, says sepsis has long frustrated clinicians. "There's no blood test," he says. "There's nothing you can look at under the microscope and say 'this is sepsis.' "

Synergy Between Nurses And Automation Could Be Key To Finding Sepsis Early

Feb 22, 2018

A bedside computer loaded with software that tracks vital signs in the ICU can pick up early warning patterns, specialists say. But it takes a human care provider to sort the signal from the noise.

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Dr. David Carlbom, a critical care pulmonologist at the University of Washington's Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, has used the anti-sepsis treatment Kelly got on 25 other patients so far. Sometimes he's seen what looks like a really rapid response

Did An IV Cocktail Of Vitamins And Drugs Save This Lumberjack From Sepsis?

Feb 21, 2018
A 51-year-old man nearly died from septic shock, when a crushing injury led to overwhelming infection. After getting an experimental treatment, he's recovering well, but some doctors want more proof.
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Probiotic Bacteria Could Protect Newborns From Deadly Infection

Aug 16, 2017
Each year more than 600,000 babies die of sepsis. Researchers have found a simple way to prevent it: Feed babies probiotic bacteria that are common in kimchi, pickles and other fermented vegetables.
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A 4-year-old regulation in New York state requires doctors and hospitals to treat sepsis using a protocol that some researchers now question.

Are State Rules For Treating Sepsis Really Saving Lives?

May 30, 2017
Some states dictate how doctors must treat this life-threatening reaction to infection, and early intervention is helping. But scientific evidence may be changing too rapidly for the rules to keep up.
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A well-regarded intensive care doctor in Virginia says he has had good success in treating 150 sepsis patients with a mix of IV corticosteroids, vitamin C and vitamin B, along with careful management of fluids. Other doctors want more proof — the sort

Why The Newly Proposed Sepsis Treatment Needs More Study

Mar 30, 2017
The bodywide inflammation known as sepsis kills about 300,000 people in U.S. hospitals each year. Promising treatments have come and gone, warn skeptical doctors, who call for rigorous research.
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Of the million or so Americans a year who get sepsis, roughly 300,000 die. Unfortunately, many treatments for the condition have looked promising in small, preliminary studies, only to fail in follow-up research.

Doctor Turns Up Possible Treatment For Deadly Sepsis

Mar 22, 2017
Research hasn't yet confirmed the early hints that a mix of IV vitamins and steroids might stop the fatal organ failure of sepsis. But an effective treatment for sepsis would be a really big deal.
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Four days after Rory Staunton cut himself in gym class, he died from septic shock.

Health Officials Struggle To Fight Deadly Sepsis Infections

Aug 23, 2016
Although a CDC study released today found that 80 percent of cases develop outside the hospital or at a nursing home, many people still don't know about this lethal medical condition.
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Sepsis, A Wily Killer, Stymies Doctors' Efforts To Tame It

May 04, 2015
It's a deadly combination of infection and inflammation striking more than a million Americans every year. Doctors can treat the symptoms of sepsis, but they still can't treat the underlying problem.
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