the.com/sepsis
Sepsis is the body's extreme, often deadly, overreaction to infection, harming its own organs.
means A life-threatening condition in which the body's chemical response to an infection spirals out of control and starts damaging its own tissues and organs.
from From Greek 'sepsis,' meaning putrefaction or decay — the rotting of organic matter. The word traces back to the verb 'sepein,' to make rotten. Ancient Greek physicians used it to describe the process of tissue breaking down, long before anyone understood infection or immune response; the term was later adopted by medicine to name the body's own runaway reaction, a kind of decay from within rather than without.
- speed
- can kill within hours if untreated
- cause
- immune overreaction, not the infection itself
- leading killer
- top cause of death in hospitals worldwide
- warning sign
- confusion plus fever often means seek ER now