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Abstract
Pediatric sepsis remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, presenting complex challenges in early diagnosis, risk stratification, and management where Historically, pediatric sepsis definitions evolved from Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS)-based criteria toward organ dysfunction-focused models, where aim of study was to evaluate the early detection and management of sepsis in children presenting to emergency settings, and to analyze their clinical characteristics, treatment interventions, and outcomes, with culminating recently in the Phoenix Sepsis criteria developed by an international task force, with study design were involving 110 pediatric patients with sepsis demonstrates critical insights into the early detection, clinical characteristics, management, and outcomes of pediatric sepsis in emergency settings, furthermore The median age was 4.2 years, with a slight male predominance (54.5%) as well as Infants under one year constituted 36% of cases, confirming the vulnerability of the youngest age group to sepsis, ( Fever was the most prevalent presenting symptom (84%), followed by tachycardia (73%), respiratory distress (55%), and altered mental status (53%), reflecting the often multisystem involvement at presentation) and Hypotension was present in 30% of patients, indicating progression to more severe stages in a notable subset more ever Risk stratification using Pediatric Early Warning Scores (PEWS) revealed that 80% of patients were moderate- to high-risk at admission In conclusion, this study reinforces that pediatric sepsis remains a time-critical emergency with complex presentations requiring early recognition and aggressive management to improve survival.