UPMC physician: Providers need a 'bolder' approach to win the battle against sepsis

Despite the high number of sepsis deaths in hospitals each year, current approaches to battling it aren't working — and providers need to develop more innovative ways to tackle the deadly infection, Derek Angus, MD, professor and chair of critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, writes in a STAT op-ed.

"If we can strive to fight a new scourge like opioids, we should be able to do the same for a much older killer," Dr. Angus argues.