Acıbadem Ataşehir Hospital Intensive Care Specialist Prof. Dr. İsmail Cinel “Although sepsis can be seen at any age and is fatal, it can be prevented from the very beginning thanks to preventive measures against infections.” says.
10 EFFECTIVE MEASURES AGAINST SEPSIS!
prof. Dr. İsmail Cinel explained what should be known about sepsis and 10 preventive rules, and made important warnings and suggestions.
VIRUSES CAN ALSO TRIGGER SEPSIS
“Imagine an apple rotten from the inside; such a thing as sepsis!” prof. Dr. İsmail Cinel emphasizes that programmable cell death (the cell’s programming itself to death after a while) is triggered by sepsis and rots the organs from the inside, and explains the danger as follows: It is a clinical picture. Sepsis, a medical emergency, is the deadliest disease in intensive care units. Stating that sepsis, which causes the death of approximately 12 million people in the world every year, affects every age group from infants to the elderly in intensive care units. Dr. İsmail Cinel, stating that sepsis can be triggered not only by bacteria but also by viruses, as seen in the severe course of Covid-19 infection, said, “In the pandemic that ravaged our world in the past 2.5 years, approximately 95 percent of the patients we lost in intensive care units died due to sepsis.” says.
ATTENTION TO THESE SYMPTOMS
Acıbadem Ataşehir Hospital Intensive Care Specialist Prof. Dr. İsmail Cinel describes the symptoms of sepsis and those who are more at risk: “chills, fever or low body temperature, severe weakness/muscle aches, feeling “like to die”, change in consciousness/dizziness, frequent breathing/shortness of breath, cough, heart attack. palpitations/damp and cold skin, inability to urinate all day long are among the symptoms of sepsis. Especially babies under the age of 1 or over 75, pregnant women, those with chronic diseases, immunocompromised patients such as cancer patients, those who have had organ transplant surgery and those who have been in intensive care or hospitalized for a long time are at higher risk, so early screening is much more common in these groups. plays a critical role.”
JUST PERSONAL MEASURES ARE NOT ENOUGH
Considering that 1 out of every 5 deaths in the world is sepsis, Prof. Dr. İsmail Cinel emphasizes that early diagnosis and treatment saves lives and that sepsis is one of the leading ‘avoidable causes of death’ with the measures to be taken. prof. Dr. İsmail Cinel says “Hand hygiene is the most effective and simple way to prevent sepsis” and lists 10 effective measures with personal and institutional dimensions as follows:
EFFECTIVE METHODS AGAINST SEPSIS
- Washing hands frequently and taking care of personal hygiene,
- Being vaccinated against infections and not using indiscriminate antibiotics,
- Spreading awareness in society against sepsis,
- Acquiring healthy eating and healthy living habits,
- Providing clean water resources,
- Hygienic birth environments,
- Strict adherence to infection prevention practices in hospitals, especially in intensive care units and operating rooms,
- Shortening the duration of hospitalization with the right treatments,
- Continuity of health workers in hospitals, low rate of change,
- One of the most important measures; It creates spatial feature details such as the ventilation systems of hospitals equipped with the latest technology.