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Missed sepsis in the ER

An ER nurse tells a recent story of how delayed notification of blood culture results led to this outcome:

Now the family has hired an attorney to look into the matter. Could that man have been saved if he had been told to come back to the hospital and was admitted and treated sooner? Hard to say. Maybe.

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