Sepsis Health Center

Each year in the United States, over 750,000 people become septic and up to half of these patients will die from it, making it deadlier than prostate cancer, breast cancer, and AIDS combined.
 

What is the economic cost of sepsis?

Treatment for sepsis often involves a prolonged stay in the intensive care unit and complex therapies, which incur high costs. It has been estimated that $17 billion is spent annually in the United States to treat sepsis.