The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) current guidelines for treating sepsis should be retired and replaced with more performance-based measures, according to a coalition of medical ...

In the presence of infection, the treatment principles are to remove the source and, while doing so, support the patient’s vital functions. In sepsis, removal of the source includes antibiotics, ...

The first large-scale, multi-hospital evaluation of an "all or none" federal policy intended to improve outcomes in sepsis patients finds that the guidelines are a wash - on average they neither ...