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This session will focus on sepsis with speakers illustrating that, while the immune system protects us from many illnesses and infections, it’s also possible for it to go into overdrive in response to an infection and thereby causing the cascade know as Sepsis. Greg Brooks will illustrate how sepsis develops when the chemicals the immune system releases into the bloodstream to fight an infection cause inflammation throughout the entire body and teach you how the disease progresses and how to assess the patient for each stage of this disease.
Curtis Knoles will review how the three stages of sepsis infection can result in disability or death and how children with compromised immune systems and those with chronic illness are particularly susceptible to sepsis, With the diagnostic and intervention window for children very short, every hour delay in treatment increases mortality by nearly 8 percent. Dr. Knoles will reinforce how EMS is in a front line position to provide early recognition and treatment to include intravenous fluid boluses, airway management and blood pressure support as needed to decrease the associated morbidity/mortality from sepsis and septic shock.