CHOP Researchers Identify Clinical Features of MIS-C in Children
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The case study involving six patients reveals key symptoms of this syndrome include fever, diarrhea, and shock.
Pediatric Sepsis Program News and Updates
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Children’s Doctor News and Updates: Spring 2020
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Latest news including a new peanut allergy treatment, risk factors linked to poor sleep, updated sepsis guidelines and more.
CHOP Doctor Helps Pen Guidelines on Treating Pediatric Sepsis
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The new guidelines address how to treat children with complex medical condition.
Tick. Tick. Tick. Defusing the Sepsis Timebomb
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Efforts across CHOP search for faster, more accurate ways to diagnose deadly infection.
Antibiotic Stewardship in Assessing Risk of Early-onset Sepsis
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Working with collaborators, we developed an accurate multivariate method for predicting risk of early-onset sepsis (EOS) among late preterm and term infants.
Diagnosing Sepsis with Machine and the Human Touch
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Scientific American highlights CHOP research as an example of how modern medicine combined with the human touch can help detect disease.
CHOP Nurse Receives Award for Work in Recognizing Sepsis
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Mary Kat Abbadessa, a clinical nurse specialist fellow, helped create a two-tiered system that alerts nurses to rapid heart rate, low blood pressure.
Sepsis Early Alert System
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CHOP’s multidisciplinary early alert system for sepsis is designed to flag at-risk children within minutes of arrival in the emergency room.
In ER, Electronic Alert Helps Detect Severe Sepsis in Children
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An electronic alert system helps clinicians quickly do a bedside assessment to identify children with severe sepsis in an emergency department. Researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia report on their efforts to rapidly recognize this life-threatening condition.