Sepsis Awareness Month

Dr. Matt Kodsi with CHI Memorial explains what sepsis is and the efforts experts are taking to combat it.

Continue through the month of september.

It is sepsis awareness month, and a lot of people you know probably been affected by this one point or another.

Joining us now from ch i orioles doctor ed koch sees vice president of medical at ch memorial doctor godsey good morning good morning boiling down force.

If someone captures you are an elevator and wants the 30 second explanation on what sepsis is how it affects the body, what you say ... so sepsis is on his reaction to when that reaction is over exaggerated, it can make you very ... what causes are or what or a couple of the causes of sepsis.

So really sepsis in response, any and lung infection, skin infection, light infection, all hands on your infection is and how severe your body's response ... who is more likely to get sepsis whether it's age, sex, race, whatever, who is at the guest risk of catching sepsis ... so we really see sepsis more commonly you are at a higher ... marriott burial or people.

For some reason have weaker immune system.

You are a symptomatically.

How does sepsi present itself ... so you're asked that all you said you my time and that's cheaper temperatures is your ey infection.

Some sign of action, and for mental climate become either less awake fused sleep.

He just altered in some way and then not be for extremely ... and this can certainly complement any other medical issues with the patient may be suffering, and i would think it it would escalated and accelerating exponentially correct as people with things like control diet you were much more like the bad ... couple of final questions.

Doctor can't see number one is preventable and number two are closely related question, is it treatable ... so from the perspective of preventable and the way you would prevent any other be careful.

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We always talk to your farewell to check for cut cuts can get infected for people to stay safe.

All things are going out ... so that's how we prevent weight gain, action was first treatabl yes we use antibiotics, medications with brother infection.

We have to use more aggressive treatment sepsis was blood pressure dropping other problems that said essential ar treatment.

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The mortality are testing sepsis increases by percent every hour is not eight percent every hour.

That's certainly a statistic that will open up your mind.

Doctor cozzi would have to leave it there, you and i will talk again here on the same airwaves between now and the end of the number which is national sepsis.

Thank you so much for everythin you do to our community to find out more about doctor godsey what's going on at us memorial