New research presented at this year’s ESICM LIVES conference (the annual meeting of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine) shows that in rich countries overall, mortality from sepsis has fallen by around a quarter in men since 1985, with a smaller reduction in women. While some countries (namely, Finland, Iceland, Ireland and New Zealand) have made progress, mortality rates continue to rise in others such as Denmark, Greece and Lithuania. In both the United States and the United Kingdom, while there has been progress sepsis rates remain above the global average reported in this study.

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