Multiple organ failure can happen to a healthy person, say doctors

Discover how acute medical emergencies and sepsis can lead to multiple organ failure, even in seemingly healthy individuals.
Nature

Postinjury Multiple Organ Failure Mechanisms

Multiple organ failure following severe trauma arises from a complex interplay of systemic inflammation, immune dysregulation, microvascular dysfunction and metabolic derangements. Initial tissue ...
Science Daily

Cell aging in one organ can snowball into multi-organ failure

The aging and failure of cells that occurs when one part of the body is damaged can spread to other organs, a study suggests. The ageing and failure of cells that occurs when one part of the body is ...
Medical Xpress

The international system for assessing organ dysfunction in critically ill patients is updated after thirty years

The updated version of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), the global reference system in intensive care medicine used to assess the degree of organ dysfunction in critically ill patients, ...