As mentioned in my previous blog post sepsis is a huge problem in the hospital setting in the world, costing countries billions of dollars a year in health care costs. In order to combat this problem, countries from around the world came together in the fall of 2002 and launched the Surviving Sepsis Campaign. In […]
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There are more than 750,000 cases of sepsis each year in the United States. The mortality rate of sepsis is 20% and economic cost of sepsis is $17 billion a year. The incidence of sepsis is projected to increase by 1.5% a year. Although the prognosis of sepsis has improved the death rate will increase […]