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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
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I reciently diagnosed and saved a patient with sepsis. It was a tough pickup... No fever, no elevated heart rate, no increased white cell count, normal cognition, no obvious infection. Just dropping 02 levels, and then increased resp rate... The hint (away from the many issues that can cause an acute respiratory decline) was toxic granulocytes on her bloodwork. And as it turned out, mild belly pain and then tanking blood pressure.
Her lactate (a marker for sepsis severity) was over 7. Mortality is 50-90% When it goes over 4.
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