Pyaemia (or pyemia) is a type of sepsis that leads to widespread abscesses of a metastatic nature.

Sir William Osler included a three-page discussion of pyaemia in his textbook The Principles and Practice of Medicine, published in 1892.

Jane Grey Swisshelm, in her autobiography titled Half a Century, describes the treatment of pyaemia in 1862 during the American Civil War.

The disease is characterized by intermittent high temperature with recurrent chills; metastatic processes in various parts of the body, especially in the lungs; septic pneumonia; empyema.

features of systemic inflammatory response syndrome tachycardia >90beats/min tachypnea >24/min temperature >38 or <36 Antibiotics are effective.