Sepsis and Machine Learning - Cloudera VISION

Sepsis is a medical condition caused by an infection that leads to an immune response so vigorous it attacks the body itself, often spreading to the bloodstream, leading quickly – if unchecked – to death. Sepsis affects as many as 18 million people worldwide each year.[1] It causes 200,000 deaths annually in the United States, and is the number one killer of people who are hospitalized.[2] While many other diseases dominate the headlines of our health conversations, sepsis is "more common than heart attack, and claims more lives than any single cancer."[3] It is the most costly condition treated in U.S. hospitals.[4]