New Sepsis Guidelines Seek to Reduce Infection’s Deadly Toll
UVA Health’s Taison Bell, MD, joined national experts to develop new sepsis care guidelines through the Infectious Diseases Society of America and seven other organizations. Published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, the recommendations cover rapid diagnostic testing, immediate antibiotics for septic shock, electronic surveillance, and infection prevention measures aimed at standardizing hospital care and reducing sepsis’s deadly annual toll.