Sepsis is a life-threatening condition in which the body is fighting a severe infection that has spread via the bloodstream. If a patient becomes "septic," they will likely have low blood pressure leading to poor circulation and lack of blood perfusion of vital tissues and organs. This conditi...
A patient support apparatus includes a sensor capable of detecting vital signs and includes structures for monitoring the vital signs and providing local and/or remote indications to caregivers if the vital signs fall outside of acceptable limits.Stacey A. FITZGIBBONS...
Blood poisoning (also referred to assepsisor septicemia) is a severe infection that is spread through the body via the blood stream. If blood poisoning is left untreated it can become so severe that it starts to interfere with the body’s organs and, in the most severe cases can lead to...
PHOENIX — A simple screening tool predicts sepsis early in trauma patients and reduces mortality, according to a new study. "The findings show that the sepsis screening tool is a reliable and valid method for the early identification of sepsis in the trauma population," said Laura Moore, MD,...
Sotera Digital Health make continuous patient monitoring system as the new standard of care for step-down and/or general floor units.
After Porsha died, Davis described in the medical record a patient who looked stable: He was tracking her vital signs, her bleeding was “mild” and she was “said not to be in distress.” From Salon Her vital signs pointed to possible sepsis, records show. From Salon Robyn is fed oxyge...
Thus armed, we examined the relationship between HRC and ob- jective measures of clinical illness. The major hypothesis was that HRC monitoring and clinical signs provide independent information in the early diagnosis of late-onset clinical and proven neonatal sepsis. METHODS Patient population. We ...
nature publishing group Clinical Investigation Articles Vital signs and their cross-correlation in sepsis and NEC: a study of 1,065 very-low-birth-weight infants in two NICUs Karen D. Fairchild1, Douglas E. Lake2, John Kattwinkel1, J. Randall Moorman2, David A. Bateman...
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But he had escaped the other major problems of premature infants, like sepsis (bloodstream infection), necrotizing enterocolitis (a serious and potentially fatal intestinal disorder), and intraven-tricular hemorrhage (bleeding inside the brain). When he was discharged, he was in very good shape. ...