A simple change to save thousands of patients with sepsis

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1. That was used to treat my daughter twenty years ago

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We were on our way from Düsseldorf to Kona, stopping off for a couple of days in Sn Francisco so my (then-) 76 year old mother in law could get a break in the travel. Our daughter ssid she wasn‘t feeling well, had a throat problem, so she skipped dinner on the last night. On the flight to Kona it got a lot worse, so we sought out an emergency room who did a quick test for Staph infection. Her count was so far off the charts that they feared for life. They laid her down and hooked her up to a steady infusion of about a liter(!!) of some powerful antibiotic. It took a while, and my wife and I waited it out. After some time had passed, her Staph count came way down, and the immediate danger was past. They prescribed some pills, and released her that night. But they said we got there not a moment too soon, and that she might not have made it through another day without drastic treatment.