Sepsis Basics - What Is It, What Does It Cause, And How To Manage It | Clinical Medicine

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[@shellymurphyhoy7836]

Thank you for the presentation. I had sepsis in June. I got it from a UTI. I spent a week 1/2 in the hospital. I have diabetes and low white blood cell count from end stage liver disease due to hepatitis C. I was treated with 2 different treatments. First one was the old one. Interferon. They didn’t weigh me. I slept off thirty eight pounds and almost died. That was 10 years ago. With sepsis I also got a blood fungus call canditis something. I had infusions for 2 weeks after being released from the hospital. I’m just starting to feel somewhat better.

[@WhiteboardMedicine]

Thanks for sharing your story with the WBM community! We are glad you’re starting to feel better. Sounds like you’ve been battling through it!

[@mydobie130]

I am currently recovering from septic shock. New for me indeed. I came to in ICU with no idea how I ended up so sick. Praying kidneys recover😢

[@WhiteboardMedicine]

Thanks for sharing your story with the WBM community. Such a tough disease, but we are glad to hear you’re battling through! We wish you well

[@DebVeda]

Great video, thanks 🙏🏻

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[@eltsac9319]

Thank you for your video. Well presented.

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[@Falling_Star_Catcher]

Thank you for educating and thereby raising awareness about Sepsis. My 27-year-old niece died from it. She had a UTI. At the first part of August this year, my daughter was hospitalized and diagnosed with viral sepsis and pneumonia. They said the pneumonia was gram positive. Thank God she made it through, but is having ongoing issues with her eyes, throat, cough, and pretty bad body aches. I wish I knew how to help her get better.

[@WhiteboardMedicine]

We are so sorry to hear about your niece and thank you for sharing with the WBM community. We wish you and your family a full recovery and well wishes moving forward

[@FlockingNerds]

Hope you do a series on this …love to be informed

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We absolutely plan on it! Stay tuned. Next video on sepsis most likely will come out early next week

[@jtrastan4607]

UK, observations - the various parameters get scored. Score of 3 or more in one parameter, consider sepsis. Score of 5 or more overall, consider sepsis. New confusiion scores 3 on its own. All of this is done by health care assistants as soon as the patient arrives in ED... It has to be escalated if sepsis is indicated. The system also decides frequency of obs depending on what the patient is scoring.

[@WhiteboardMedicine]

Interesting to hear the approach from another country! Thanks for sharing. Sounds like there is some overlap but also some differences

[@biggestnate3]

I have a friend who survived sepsis after a knee replacement. Still going strong over a year later.

[@WhiteboardMedicine]

Wonderful news! Obviously suboptimal they had to battle through that, but glad they came out on the other side. Thanks for sharing

[@pamagujar183]

IV antibiotics worked so well in acute care. If it didn't lower the high fever in two hours, then we knew our patient was in a serious, medical crisis. IV antibiotics was a Hail Mary 🎉

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IV antibiotics have been an absolute society changing discovery back when Fleming first discovered it back accident in the 1920s!

[@meli66ajg]

This is what once was called "blood poisoning", right? A friend of mine got it when a colon surgery failed (sutures reopened) and his system was overwhelmed. Wouldn't anyone get "dysregulation" if this happened to them?

[@WhiteboardMedicine]

Thanks for checking out the video and for commenting. There is a lot of overlap with the old school concept of “blood poisoning”. This is often describing bacteremia or when the infection spreads into the blood. When this happens, you are very high risk to have sepsis and even septic shock, as those bacteria in the blood are activating immune responses all throughout the body