- Experts have warned hospitals not using standard treatment for sepsis
- Blood poisoning affects more than 100,000 Britons a year and kills 37,000
- 10% of patients at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary ward given correct treatment
- Sepsis Six involves blood tests to check for infection and monitoring urine
Patients’ lives are at risk from blood poisoning because hospitals are not implementing a standard treatment that can double their chances of survival, experts have warned. Sepsis, previously known as septicaemia, affects more than 100,000 Britons a year and kills 37,000 – more than breast, bowel and prostate cancer combined. Now a snapshot NHS study reveals that on one surgical ward at a leading teaching hospital, 90 per cent of patients failed to get the correct treatment, involving a simple set of lifesaving measures known as Sepsis Six.
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Mother-of-two Anna Tilley survived after spending four days in intensive care with blood poisoning, pictured with her son Harry
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