How to Use sepsis in a Sentence

sepsis

noun
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  • The result: Deaths due to severe sepsis fell by 15% in one year.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • His daughter, the singer Kay Lyra, said the cause of his death, in a hospital, was sepsis.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Pounded by health calamities the last decade, Mike died at age 64 of sepsis.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 28 May 2023
  • His death, in a hospital, was caused by sepsis, said his wife, Rachel Loshak.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2022
  • For example, loss of fluid in the body may contribute to the risk of sepsis.
    — Cailley Lapara, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Bobbie Johnson’s mother, Shirley Mike, checked in to Brighton in 2016 after a bout of sepsis.
    — Christopher Rowland, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Symptoms of sepsis include heavy breathing, fever, fast heart rate, and chills.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The cause was complications from sepsis, said his son James.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2022
  • Septic shock is the last and most severe stage of sepsis, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
    — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
  • His son, Adam, said his death, at a hospital, was caused by a sepsis infection.
    — Clyde Haberman, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Even with surgery and treatment for the infection, the CDC says that up to 1 in 5 people die from the disease which can cause organ failure and sepsis.
    — EW.com, 9 Jan. 2024
  • One moment, the emergency medicine physician was doing a sepsis work-up for a 12-year-old boy whose fever wouldn’t break.
    — Kate Wells, Chicago Tribune, 26 Dec. 2022
  • A number of hospitals are using it to catch patients at risk for sepsis.
    — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2023
  • On June 20, she was hospitalized for eight days with sepsis.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2023
  • One research idea often folds into another, and that was the case with sepsis.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2024
  • Moreno died of complications from a stroke and sepsis, Rueda said.
    — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 12 May 2024
  • Her death, in a hospital, was caused by sepsis and a brain tumor, her husband, Tom Happold, said.
    — New York Times, 11 July 2022
  • The tissue around a wound rapidly dies, and the bacteria swoop into other parts of the body leading to sepsis, shock and organ failure.
    — Frances Stead Sellers and Sabrina Malhi, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2022
  • When Weeks was finally able to have the surgery more than two weeks later, his condition from sepsis had worsened.
    — Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The child endured severe burns across 80% of his body, suffered from kidney failure, sepsis, and brain damage.
    — Bry'onna Mention, Essence, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Some people have died from UTIs that spread to the bloodstream and caused sepsis, and drug-resistant infections could make this more common.
    — Jaimie Seaton, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2023
  • In the fall of last year, Herrera died after developing sepsis.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Jefferson Health credits the new system with helping to reduce deaths from severe sepsis by 15% in a year.
    — oregonlive, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Sadly, Conaway died in 2011 from pneumonia with sepsis.
    — Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The infection can also spread to parts of the face, causing sepsis and even death, Azim said, citing a 2021 case report in the Journal of Endodontics.
    — Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2022
  • However, Black patients still had a higher rate of sepsis than White patients.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Blood clots, heart problems and sepsis — an extreme body response to infection — have caused countless deaths among Covid patients around the world.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • After a near-fatal bout with sepsis and countless surgeries, scans, X-rays and consultations, Mr. Hill returned to the game in 2004.
    — Emily Bobrow, WSJ, 27 May 2022
  • Infection set in, progressed to gangrene, and Daniels died from sepsis or blood poisoning.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2023
  • In March, Anderson lost his wife Krystal to sepsis, following the stillbirth of their daughter, Charlotte.
    — Lonyae Coulter, Kansas City Star, 14 June 2024

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