As part of Sepsis Awareness Month, the University of Florida Department of Surgery is looking at some of the work being done at the Sepsis and Critical Illness Research Center.
As many as 30-50% of surgical sepsis patients never return to their previous health status, according to Guoshuai Cai, Ph.D., an assistant professor and director of the UF Surgery Genomics Core. They instead develop what has been recently described as chronic critical illness, or CCI, battling persistent inflammation, immune suppression and poor long-term outcomes.
Cai is working to decode why two patients who develop sepsis can leave the hospital on two very different paths: one recovering steadily and the other sliding into long-term weakness, repeat infections, rehospitalizations and other setbacks.
Read more about Guoshuai Cai, Ph.D., Awarded $2.1 Million NIH Grant To Study Long-Term Sepsis Outcomes.
