Sepsis Research Analysis
February’s sepsis research converged on host-directed immunomodulation and pragmatic implementation. A large cluster RCT in Nature Medicine showed that a digitally enabled stewardship program markedly reduced antibiotics for respiratory infections without increasing sepsis-related hospitalizations. Mechanistic advances identified a BDNF-derived peptide (BDP-12) that antagonizes TLR4 to blunt lung inflammation and an FGF13–ERK/HIF-1α glycolytic axis that is therapeutically tractable. Neuroepigene