Understanding Sepsis: What are the challenges and risk factors?

In this video, Shamiram Feinglass, M.D., M.P.H, and chief medical officer at Beckman Coulter, explains the challenges and risk factors associated with #Sepsis.

Sepsis is caused by a variety of different things. You can have sepsis from a bacterial infection, so strep. You can have sepsis from a virus, flu, or #COVID19. You can have sepsis from a fungus. Any of these infectious agents can result in a patient becoming septic, and potentially, be at risk for dying.

People become more susceptible, to dying of sepsis when they have an inadequate or overburdened immune response. That's why people that are older, who have other multisystem diseases, and the very, very young, are at higher risk of sepsis and higher risk therefore of dying from it.

The main challenge is clinician space when encountering sepsis are simply that, we may have missed it. A patient who you don't know walks into the emergency room and you don't know their septic.
They come in complaining that something hurts, something doesn't feel right.

Literally, within a minute, that person can be completely ill, they can be completely unresponsive. They can fall out in your emergency room.

Because they are septic, time matters. Making this diagnosis quickly will prevent people from dying.

In the battle to #SolveSepsis, every moment counts. For more information about how Beckman Coulter's is helping to solve sepsis, please visit www.BeckmanCoulter.com/sepsis

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