Children’s sepsis deaths top 3.4 million worldwide, diagnosis remains difficult
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Globally, sepsis infection is the leading cause of death in children who receive more than 3.4 million lives per year according to the sepsis alliance – 85% of these deaths occur before the age of 5.
Sepsis among children is a very difficult and difficult problem for doctors to diagnose and treat, almost 10% of cases in the emergency department are missed.
When children are accepted by infection, the average stay is more than one month compared to the above source.
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According to Clinical Sciences Team Leader and Emergency Research Professor Elliot Long, Australia, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, many people do not know much about sepsis.
The immune system with sepsis has an abnormal response to an infection – very enthusiastic or very minimal.
According to the sepsis alliance, globally, sepsis infection is the leading cause of death in children and becomes more than 3.4 million per year. (Istock)
“The immune response may be less active, which may lead to severe, overwhelming infection, or may be extremely active, and the immune response itself can damage the organs of the body that may be life -threatening.” He said.
Australia and New Zealand to test the potential sepsis treatments this year, this year, a 5 million -dollar national critical research infrastructure attempt, the professor, sepsis was easily kidnapped, because the widespread or violent parents are not understood, he said.
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Symptoms often coincide with the same symptoms that you will receive for self-limiting viral infections that are really common in children. ” He said.
“Paradox is very easy to intake sepsis in late stages, but treatments are not very effective.” “It is very difficult to take sepsis in the early stages – but then treatments are likely to be effective.”
Sepsis uses the abbreviation of the alliance TIME To help people remember the primary warning signs. (Istock)
Sepsis symptoms and treatments
Sepsis uses the abbreviation of the alliance TIME To help people remember the primary warning signs as follows.
T = Temperature: higher or lower than normal (fever or hypothermia)
I = Infection: Symptoms of infection (for example, a cut, pneumonia, iye)
M = Mental decline: confusion, drowsiness, difficulty in waking up or waking up
TO = Extremely sick: severe pain or discomfort, shortness of breath, I feel like you can die
Other warning signs include shortness of breath, confusion, excessive pain, low blood pressure, fever, organ dysfunction and humid type or sweaty skin.
According to Clinical Sciences Team Leader and Emergency Research Professor Elliot Long, Australia, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, many people do not know much about sepsis. (Murdoch Children’s Research Institute)
According to Long, early detection and treatment of sepsis is required to prevent life -threatening complications that damage the kidney, heart, liver, brain and other organs. Sometimes, preventing this damage includes what is excessively treated with antibiotics.
Sepsis treatments are developing and an ongoing study. Currently, all treatments are supportive, ie doctors are treated with antibiotics while dealing with abnormal immune reactions and waits for the return of normal function.
“We have a lot to do to try and improve treatments that help improve the results for children with sepsis.”
“These supportive treatments contain simple things like taking oxygen and fluids, and if children need help in breathing, if oxygen levels are too low or conscious states are broken, they are put into a ventilator.” He said.
“We have a lot of work to try and improve the treatments that help improve the results for children with sepsis, not only supportive treatments, but also for children with sepsis that helps to change the immune response.”
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Despite the flexibility of children, sepsis may have a long -term effect. Long and colleagues are looking for long -term problems with cognition, emotions and motor skills.
“The effect was not only on children, but also on parents, because they had an extremely stressful life.” He said. “And sometimes that meant that their children had to think about the possibility of death … So parents and families remained with such a survival burden.”
Listening to parents
Since it is very easy to kidnap early sepsis, he stressed how important doctors to listen to their parents closely.
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“Parents, ‘This is a very abnormal response to an infection of an infection, or the most sick I have ever seen,’ he said, this may be more than a small infection, ‘he said.
Long told Fox News Digital to Digital, the most common age for sepsis patients is less than 5 years of age, and in this group, it is especially common for children under one year of age.
Sepsis among children is a very difficult and difficult problem for doctors to diagnose and treat, almost 10% of cases in the emergency department are missed. (Istock)
“They usually cannot define verbal or symptoms or symptoms, so we trust the parents, we trust that they think they are or observed in their children.”
“Martha’s rule” is a universal principle that allows parents to defend sick children, which is particularly important for sepsis that a young life can easily be lost.
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“If parents realize that their children are getting worse or worse over time, Martha’s rule was placed to allow them to skip the local upgrade procedures and get an independent opinion.” He said. “[This allows them to] In case of deterioration, provide the appropriate level of care for their children. “
