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 ...

The disease, linked to serious conditions like necrotizing fasciitis and sepsis, disproportionately affects people with existing health issues, drug users, and the homeless. Experts urge vigilance ...

In advanced stages, STSS can cause necrotizing fasciitis — that is, flesh-eating disease — and even organ failure. Patients are typically prescribed antibiotics to treat the infection ...

Patients will give a history of minor trauma such as contusion, insect bite, frostbite, chronic leg ulcer, or a surgical incision, and present with severe pain and edema to their health care ...

Unlike regular strep throat, this type can lead to dangerous conditions like necrotizing fasciitis (flesh-eating disease) or toxic shock syndrome. "Within 24 to 48 hours, you could have very ...

Also known as "invasive strep," this bug can cause necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh-eating disease, as well as toxic shock syndrome, a sepsis-like infection that can trigger organ failure.

The strain can also cause more severe infections, like sepsis, necrotizing fasciitis and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome. The researchers identified 21,213 cases of invasive GAS, leading to ...

This invasion can trigger life-threatening conditions including necrotizing fasciitis—sometimes called “flesh-eating disease”—and toxic shock syndrome, which can lead to rapid organ failure.

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 ...

Floribama Shore alum Kirk Medas has been hospitalized with a “severe” case of necrotizing pancreatitis. “Our friend Kirk has been in the ICU for over two weeks now,” fellow Floribama Shore ...