Pediatric Sepsis and the Path to Medical Malpractice

child in hospital bed smiling with two nurses

For families, sepsis is devastating twice: first when it takes their child, and again when the medical system offers no explanation for why. In March 2026, researchers publishing in JAMA confirmed what emergency rooms and pediatric wards have long understood: sepsis strikes over 18,000 hospitalized children in the U.S. each year, killing more than one in ten. […]