(formaldehyde in them causes internal bleeding in me-safe? not for everyone until they make the safe!)Medical City President Erol Akdamar on How to Make Flu Season Less Deadly

Medical City President Erol Akdamar on How to Make Flu Season Less Deadly: If you feel like you have been hearing more about sepsis recently, you are right. Blame the flu. Sepsis is an overwhelming response to infection that can lead to life-threatening organ failure. It's a serious healthcare industry concern because each year, sepsis affects more than 26 million people worldwide including 270,000 American deaths, making it more deadly than breast cancer, prostate cancer and AIDS combined. Sepsis is often linked to bacterial infections, but the past two flu seasons it has made headlines as a life-threatening complication from the influenza virus. I follow the trends of sepsis on a daily basis because it is the number one cause of hospital readmissions nationwide and is expensive in terms of both dollars and lives. Early and aggressive treatment boosts the chances of survival. The challenge has been that sepsis is hard to recognize in its early stages because the symptoms are similar to other conditions. A patient can go from near normal to near death in a