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Diagnosing sepsis: reducing the three-day waitWhen a patient is admitted with suspected sepsis, doctors start antibiotics immediately, but for up to three days, they do not know exactly which microbe they are fighting. Today, in the final article of our series ahead of World Sepsis Day on 13 September, Dr. Iedan Verly explains how innovative diagnostics aim to shorten that delay and how the research done within his department contributes to these new tools.
Treating sepsis: act fast and know when to stopSepsis is a medical emergency, but once the acute crisis is over, the question changes: how much treatment does this patient still need? Today, in the second article of our series ahead of World Sepsis Day on 13 September, Dr. Kim Sigaloff outlines why the smartest course of antibiotics may be the shortest one that is still safe.
What is sepsis? When the body's defence turns against itselfIn the run-up to World Sepsis Day on 13 September, we are publishing a series of three articles on sepsis. In this first article, PhD candidates Aryna Kolodyazhna, Floris de Vries and Susanne Doeleman explain what sepsis is, why it can become life-threatening within hours, and how their research at Amsterdam UMC and the Amsterdam Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases (AI&I) helps us better understand the body's response to infection.
