Hospitals danger dropping Medicare if they do not take steps to halt sepsis

Don Smith remembers the second he awoke in an intensive care unit after 13 days in a medically induced coma. His spouse and daughter have been at his bedside, and he thought it had been solely a day since he arrived on the emergency room with foot ache.

Smith stated his spouse “slowly began filling me in” on the surgical procedure, the coma, the ventilator. The throbbing in his foot had been a sign of a raging downside.