Ep 107 Sepsis: It's a mess

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Health & Fitness, Science

4.8 • 17.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Over the years of the podcast, we have often struggled with questions of why: why pathogens act the way they do, why certain people get sick while others don’t, or why we know little about some diseases. This episode is no exception - sepsis certainly inspires many “whys”. But for perhaps the first time on the pod, we find ourselves grappling not only with “why?” but also with “what?”. What, indeed, is sepsis? Ask a dozen doctors and you may get a dozen different answers. Our first goal for this episode is to sift through the various definitions of sepsis and what we know about its pathology to get a firm handle on this deadly consequence of infection. We then turn our sights to a thrilling period of sepsis history - Joseph Lister and his carbolic acid spray - before attempting to address the status of sepsis around the world today. By the end of the episode, your picture of sepsis may not be crystal clear, but hopefully the edges are a little less blurry. And helping us to de-blur the edges of sepsis is the wonderful Katy Grainger, leading sepsis and amputee advocate and on the Board of Directors of Sepsis Alliance, who shares with us her harrowing sepsis experience. You can learn more about Katy’s story and advocacy work by following her on instagram (@katysepsisamputee), TikTok (@katysepsisamputee), Facebook, or by checking out www.sepsis.org.

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0:46.4	and both of my lower legs to sexist.
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0:53.4	me, I actually ended up in septic shock, is because I did not know the signs and symptoms.
0:57.9	So when I tell my story, I can't stop myself from kind of highlighting where I made some
1:01.6	mistakes.
1:03.0	So in September of 2018, I was living in Hawaii with my husband.
1:06.9	We were new empty nesters and I had just gone to visit my kids in California for a week
1:13.2	and my husband had taken that opportunity to go on a fishing trip to very remote Idaho.
1:18.9	So I went down to California, hung out with my kids, and then it was time to return back
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