Hospitals fight sepsis with AI: By predicting cases, sepsis watch could save lives - [News]
Eliza Strickland · IEEE Spectrum · 2018
In hospitals, doctors and nurses keep vigilant watch over patients' vital signs and blood tests to catch the first symptoms of sepsis. In this life-threatening condition, the body responds to an infection with widespread inflammation that can lead to organ failure. Cases can progress rapidly to severe sepsis and then to septic shock, which has a mortality rate of almost 50 percent in the United States.