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What is Sepsis?
Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that occurs when the body’s response to an infection injures its own tissues and organs.
According to recent estimates, one in eighteen deaths in Canada involves sepsis, making it the twelfth leading cause of death nationally. Globally, sepsis affects an estimated 18 million people each year. The condition remains a leading cause of death in the Global South.
Many patients diagnosed with sepsis require care in the Intensive Care Unit, placing a considerable burden on the healthcare system. The cost of treating sepsis in Canada amounts to $325 million annually. Even as the diagnosis and treatment of sepsis improve, rates are on the rise.
Our Sepsis Stories
The goal of our sepsis stories is to bring awareness and educate the public about sepsis, what can trigger it and how it affects patients and their families.
Our Sepsis Stories
Latest News
September 22, 2025
A groundbreaking study from Hamilton Health Sciences’ (HHS) Centre for Burn Research looked at the connection between major burns and #sepsis, a common complication for burn patients.
September 23, 2025
'It was clear to us that we needed to take a different approach to it,' says team co-lead.
September 15 2025
Kayla Dort has been a registered nurse in the emergency department at Cobequid Community Health Centre (CCHC) for nearly a decade. While recovering from an ankle injury, she stepped into a resource support role assisting her manager.
September 13 2025
On World Sepsis Day, Dr. Issac Bogoch explains the signs and preventions of sepsis that the public should know.
9 September 2025
Gurinder and Ravinder Sidhu were excited to welcome their third baby in June. That excitement turned to fear and then grief after Ravinder died from sepsis shortly after her son's birth.
9 September 2025
It’s a sudden, silent killer that some nurses and doctors are ill prepared to diagnose, according to a group of Canadian researchers.
8 September 2025
A GTA family is calling for accountability and new hospital policies after a mother died earlier this summer, following childbirth. As CBC's Sarah MacMillan explains, the family says staff at Mississauga's Credit Valley Hospital didn't act quickly enough to recognize and treat sepsis.
3 September 2025
A family from Grande Prairie, Alta., has been awarded damages in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over medical care of their infant daughter, who became a quadruple amputee after a bacterial infection was treated too late.
21 August 2025
Finley was triaged a Level 2 on the Canadian triage acuity scale. “The guidelines states a patient at a Level 2, should be seen by a physician within 15 minutes!”
20 August 2025
Quebec has reported a case of the potentially deadly tick-borne disease Rocky Mountain spotted fever that was likely acquired in Ontario or Quebec. The disease was also reported in dogs in Ontario earlier this year.