How to Use sepsis in a Sentence

sepsis

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The cause was heart failure, said his son Matthew, who lives in California and had moved his father there as his health declined from sepsis and other problems.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 8 June 2023
• Part of that danger lies in the fact that sepsis causes collateral damage to vital organs.
  — Kayla Hui, Verywell Health, 10 Mar. 2024
• Cronobacter germs can cause sepsis, a dangerous blood infection, and meningitis, a swelling of the linings surrounding the brain and spinal cord.
  — James M. O'Neill, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
• Our affliction feels more like sepsis, with no obvious cure.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2022
• The fungus, called Candida auris, is a type of yeast that can cause sepsis, fever or low blood pressure in people with weakened immune systems.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2023
• Around this same time, Gililland took a brief leave of absence from school to recover from what court documents state was a kidney infection and sepsis.
  — Kat Bouza, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024