Sepsis is when your body has a severe response to an infection. During sepsis, your immune system, which normally defends you from germs, starts to attack your body's tissues. This triggers ...

In 1992, an international consensus panel defined sepsis as a systemic inflammatory response to infection, noting that sepsis could arise in response to multiple infectious causes and that septicemia ...

Larissa Banitt is a registered nurse who combines her English and Nursing degrees in writing health content. She has worked on the floor on a medical-surgical unit and currently works providing care ...

Hamsa Puthalakath receives funding from La Trobe University's SIF and RFA (UD) for developing novel antibody-based therapeutics for treating poly-microbial sepsis. Sepsis, colloquially known as blood ...

Sepsis, a severe immune response to infection, can trigger body-wide inflammation, significantly increasing the risk of acute kidney failure. Conversely, individuals with kidney disease, especially ...