Your vitals can catch sepsis
hours before you'd notice.
Sepsis develops quietly - a fever, a faster heartbeat, quicker breathing. Ziva watches these signals continuously and tells you, and your care team, the moment a pattern needs attention.
For people recovering from infection, surgery, or a recent hospital stay - alongside their care team.
Ziva Health is an AI-powered health companion for tracking recovery and infection risk through daily vitals monitoring and personalised coaching. Isabella is Ziva's AI health coach - she tracks your temperature, heart rate, breathing, and how you're feeling every day and tells you when something is changing, in plain language. When she sees a pattern that needs clinical attention, she alerts your care team.
Three steps to catching deterioration early.
Catching sepsis early
starts with five daily signals.
Sepsis rarely announces itself all at once. The warning signs are there - in your temperature, your heart rate, your breathing, how alert you feel, and your blood pressure if it's being tracked. Ziva reads them together every day and tells you what's changing, so you and your care team can act before it becomes an emergency.
A fever that won't break
is your body sounding an alarm.
When the body is fighting a severe infection, temperature often moves first - either a persistent fever or, in some people, an unusually low reading. Isabella tracks your temperature against your own baseline, not a generic number, so subtle but meaningful shifts don't go unnoticed.
A racing heart and quick breaths
are the body compensating.
As infection spreads, the heart beats faster and breathing quickens to try to keep up. Neither alone is unusual - but a sustained rise in both, especially alongside a fever, is one of the clearest early warning patterns clinicians look for. Isabella tracks both continuously through a wearable and tells you when the combination matters.
Confusion or unusual sleepiness —
Isabella connects it to your vitals.
Feeling unusually confused, drowsy, or "just not right" can be easy to dismiss - especially for older adults, where it's sometimes the most obvious early sign of a serious infection. When a change in alertness shows up alongside a fever or a fast heart rate, Isabella treats it as urgent, even if either signal alone might seem minor.
Isabella builds your recovery
routine around your day.
Not generic health tips - a specific routine built around infection risk, your recent history, and your recovery. The same simple checks, at the same times, every day. Done consistently, this routine gives your care team a clear picture and gives you real peace of mind.
Why every hour counts.
Sepsis is one of the most time-sensitive conditions in medicine. This is what the evidence shows about recognizing and treating it early.
Your care team should
see what you see.
Whether your provider already uses Ziva or is hearing about it for the first time - there are two things you can do right now. Both help you get better care.
What is sepsis?
Sepsis is the body's extreme, dysregulated response to an infection - one that, instead of fighting the infection locally, begins damaging the body's own tissues and organs. It is not an infection itself but a life-threatening reaction to one, and it can progress from mild symptoms to organ failure within hours. Sepsis is a medical emergency and one of the most common preventable causes of death in hospitals, but it can also begin at home, days after what seemed like a minor infection.
Who is most at risk
Sepsis can affect anyone, but risk rises sharply for certain groups:
- →Recent surgery or hospitalization — surgical sites and invasive lines are common entry points for infection
- →Adults over 65 — older adults are more likely to develop sepsis and often show subtler early symptoms, like confusion, rather than a high fever
- →Weakened immune systems — from chemotherapy, chronic illness, or immunosuppressive medication
- →Chronic conditions — diabetes, kidney disease, COPD, and cancer all raise the risk of an infection progressing to sepsis
- →Untreated or undertreated infections — UTIs, pneumonia, and skin or wound infections are the most common starting points
Symptoms to know
Sepsis symptoms can develop gradually or suddenly. The earlier you catch them, the more treatment options remain available:
- →Fever, chills, or feeling unusually cold
- →Faster than usual heart rate
- →Breathing faster than normal
- →Feeling far worse than a typical infection
- →A wound or incision that's newly red, warm, or draining
- →Confusion or difficulty waking
- →Very fast or difficult breathing
- →Clammy, pale, or mottled skin
- →Dizziness or feeling faint
- →A sense that something is seriously wrong
Reducing your risk day to day
Sepsis risk can't always be eliminated, but it can be managed proactively - especially after surgery, a hospital stay, or with a chronic condition:
- →Daily vitals monitoring — the most important single habit; temperature and heart rate change before you feel unwell
- →Wound care — keep surgical sites clean and check daily for redness, warmth, or drainage
- →Complete your antibiotics — stopping early, even when you feel better, allows infection to resurge
- →Treat infections promptly — UTIs, respiratory infections, and skin infections are far easier to manage before they spread
- →Know your baseline — recognizing what's normal for you makes it far easier to notice when something changes
What people ask.
Ziva Health is a wellness and health-coaching app. It is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat, or prescribe. All content is for informational purposes only. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional for medical decisions about your condition. Sepsis is a medical emergency - if you suspect it, seek immediate medical care.
Check in each day.
Isabella watches
for what matters.
A quick daily check. Isabella tracks the trend, coaches your recovery, and alerts your care team before a fever becomes an emergency.
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