While sepsis overwhelmingly strikes the elderly every year in the U.S., more than 75,000 children get it, according to the Sepsis Alliance. What every parent needs to know:
, and many conditions can lead to it. You can be completely healthy or have a condition that makes you more likely to get it.
“Studies have shown that preterm infants who are black are 13 times more likely to develop sepsis and 15 times more likely to die than infants who are not black,” he says. “Infants of low-income families are 20 times more likely to die of sepsis. In fact, infants from families without insurance are also 3 times more likely to die.”“The signs and symptoms initially can be very subtle, and many a time, we misdiagnose children and we think they have a common cold,” he says.
“It was about 3 o’clock in the morning and he asked me for water,” Doubek remembers. “I picked up the water bottle and went to hand it to him. He looked at me and said ‘is someone going to fly it to our house?’” “It was hard to believe that our healthy 11-year-old son, who had been playing baseball 4 days earlier, was on a respirator, sedated, and asleep. He had IV lines and a catheter. You walk into the room and you cannot believe what has just happened,” Doubek says.There are no tests that can give you a diagnosis of sepsis immediately, Kissoon says. He says if doctors suspect sepsis, they start antibiotics right away rather than wait until the diagnosis is confirmed.
An early warning system uses an electronic health record to look at the patient’s vital signs and history to help flag the bedside care provider if the patient could be getting sepsis, Hess says.Looks mottled, bluish, or has very pale skinIs very lethargic or difficult to wake upTerri Brown, RN, says the new systems at Texas Children’s have helped cut its mortality rate from sepsis.
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