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Around 34% sepsis patients in India die in ICU

Caused by pathogens such as virus, bacteria, or fungus, Sepsis is an infection that leads to a high number of fatalities worldwide.

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A recent study revealed that 34 per cent of sepsis patients in India die in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The study conducted by a diagnostic laboratory across its various centres puts light to another study published in 2017 that covered the five-year experience of a single centre determined mortality rates for ICU, in-hospital, and post 28 days to be 56 per cent, 63 per cent, and 63 per cent, respectively.

Caused by pathogens such as virus, bacteria, or fungus, Sepsis is an infection that leads to a high number of fatalities worldwide. It is estimated that around two to three crore patients worldwide are afflicted by the infection each year, while every few seconds someone dies of sepsis in the world.

If not timely diagnosed and treated, the condition advances to become septic shock with multiple organ dysfunction syndromes in which pulmonary, renal, hepatic, gastrointestinal, hematologic, cardiac, neurological and metabolic systems of the body are affected.

"We get approximately 200 cases every month. Sepsis remains one of the highly prevalent and life-threatening infections but is rarely talked about. The infection majorly affects immunity compromised people such as those who are hospitalised with serious diseases, are in intensive care unit (ICU) or have just exited hospital after a major treatment. The infection develops when chemicals released by the immune system to fight infections cause inflammation in the body. The infection spreads quickly through the body, and if the infection goes unchecked, undiagnosed, and is not timely treated then sepsis can lead to sepsis shock, multiple organ failure, and death," says Arunima Patel, Founder, iGenetic Diagnostics.

A person suffering from sepsis shows high body temperature above 101°F or hypothermia which is low body temperature below 96.8°F; heart beating at a pace higher than 90 beats per minute in a normal state; high respiration rate of 20 breaths per minute or more.

Other symptoms indicate whether an organ is failing to perform its function, which includes a significant decrease in urine output, drop in platelet count, severe respiratory issues, pain in the abdomen, and cardiac function becomes abnormal, suggest experts.

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