#sepsis

#sepsis

hospital staff, during the final admission, decided to try an oral antibiotic but the requested drug was unavailable. An IV antibiotic was only given 34 hours after Graham arrived at hospital, and at half the dosage it should have been. There was also a three-hour delay between the doctor requesting the drug and it being administered, the report found. By the time a second dose of antibiotic was given, which was also delayed, Graham had become septic.

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We are all utterly shattered and devastated, there are no words. We lost our beautiful Marissa, the pain is unbearable. It is crucial we get to the bottom of it. Didn't they know what a person with all this vulnerable medical history could get sepsis straight away? Sepsis spreads very quickly it can kill you in few hours if it is treated straight away.

She died days later at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital, after her body went into septic shock from a Group A Streptococcus infection. Her family believes medical staff at Credit Valley Hospital didn't act quickly enough when Sidhu first presented signs of sepsis even ignoring pleas from the family and that her death may have been preventable if life-saving efforts were made sooner.

The recognition of sepsis remains an urgent and persistent safety risk, despite previous reports highlighting the large number of deaths it causes when diagnosed too late.