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Hi, I'm Jennifer Keel, a shareholder with Burg Simpson. I want to talk to you about delayed
diagnosis.
Now this just basically means when health care providers take too long to figure out
what the problem is and to start appropriate treatment for that problem.
Most of the time, delays, if they're short, don't really cause a major problem.
But occasionally, with some illnesses, even a very short delay can be extremely
dangerous - or even deadly.
One example of this would be sepsis.
So, sepsis if you don't know if that is, is a generalized infection. It may
start in one place but it quickly progresses throughout your whole body
and it affects your blood. So your blood is actually infected and
it can be
very quickly fatal.
So there's research now that shows that for every hour that
antibiotics are delayed,
the chance of dying from sepsis actually increases by about seven or eight
percent. And what that means is that even a very short delay in figuring out that
patient is septic and getting those antibiotics started can be the difference
between life-and-death for someone.
So, if you think that you've had a problem or you know someone who has
had a problem that has not been
diagnosed and treated in a timely fashion, and that that delay may have
caused serious injury to you or to someone you know, then call me. I want to
talk to you about that. Thank you.