Cooper University Hospital’s internationally renowned team of Critical Care and Emergency Department physicians have completed original research that could have major implications on the future development of effective treatments for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock, the leading cause of death in intensive care units. The study, which was funded in part by the Emergency Medicine Foundation and the American Heart Association, will be published in the January 2007 edition of Annals of Emergency Medicine
Sepsis is the body’s inflammatory response to severe infection.