Nursing interventions involve recognizing those patients at risk, reporting these suspicions to the health care provider, monitoring patient vital signs and laboratory values, providing frequent ...

In summary, NF is a life-threatening infection causing rapid necrosis of the fascia. Nurses have the opportunity to identify patients at risk and to assess wound characteristics and changes ...

Smith developed necrotizing fasciitis that resulted in sepsis. Doctors said at the time that they were working to save his life — and then his leg. Some 17 surgeries later, the athlete fully ...

However, strep A can also have much worse outcomes, including sepsis, toxic shock syndrome and necrotizing fasciitis, which is a flesh-eating bacterial infection. "Not all group A strep are the ...

Group A Streptococcus bacteria can cause illnesses from the common strep throat to sepsis, toxic shock syndrome, and necrotizing fasciitis (more commonly known as flesh-eating bacterial infections).

In a new case report published April 8 in the journal BMJ Case Reports, U.K. doctors describe three patients who were found to have necrotizing fasciitis of the vulva. The vulva includes the ...

The result can be life-threatening conditions, including necrotizing fasciitis and toxic shock syndrome. While the highest rates were found in adults 65 and older, the largest relative increase ...