Taking Aim at Sepsis to Save Millions From Sudden Death

Abstract

Sepsis is an urgent medical problem around the world with at least 47 million affected per year. Of those, about a quarter—at least 11 million—die, and many sepsis survivors face health repercussions for the rest of their lives, according to the Global Sepsis Alliance [1] . Along the same lines, the World Health Organization named sepsis as the cause of one in five deaths globally, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notes similiarly dire statistics [2] . These are some of many dire statistics that have prompted health agencies and biomedical innovators to address this massive health emergency.