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Sepsis Month is here, don’t miss the 2nd annual World Sepsis Congress!
As many of you know, September is Sepsis Awareness month, a time dedicated to raising public sepsis awareness and improving sepsis prevention and management efforts in the healthcare community. One day during this month is declared World Sepsis Day, a day when...
Results of ESCAVO’s Surviving Sepsis Campaign 1-hour Sepsis Bundle Survey
In April of 2018, the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) released a new version of its popular and widely used Sepsis Management Bundles. These bundles outline the initial sepsis treatment steps recommended by the SSC. The new guideline combines the 7 steps found in the...
A new sponsor for our Sepsis App and a new test for sepsis
As many of our users have likely already noticed, our Sepsis app now has a sponsor and we’re very happy about it! Beckman Coulter has generously agreed to support our continued sepsis education efforts, and we want to take this opportunity to welcome them to the...
FDA approves angiotensin II formulation (Giapreza) for blood pressure maintenance in adults with refractory septic shock
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an angiotensin II intravenous formulation (Giapreza, La Jolla Pharmaceutical Co) for the treatment of hypotension in adults with refractory distributive and septic shock not responsive to IV fluids and other...
Looking for the Vitamin C sepsis cure – An interview with Paul Marik
Back in April of this year I wrote a blog on the discovery by Dr. Paul Marik, a critical care physician at East Virginia Medical School, that a cocktail of vitamin C, hydrocortisone and thiamine was remarkably effective at treating patients with severe sepsis and...