September is Sepsis Awareness Month—Save a Life

Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that affects at least 1.7 million adults in the United States each year and causes nearly 270,000 deaths. This is too many lives. Protecting patients and reducing the impact of sepsis is our goal and our responsibility. Listening to families who have lost their loved ones and sepsis survivors have taught us that there is an urgency to address the gaps that lead to sepsis and deaths. CDC plays a unique role in addressing sepsis by providing scientific expertise, data, and epidemiology to inform programs, practices, and policies to prevent and address sepsis.