这些数字令人惊叹。每年，全球800万人死于败血症，仅在美国就死亡258,000。美国三分之一的人将在他们的一生中发展败血症。败血症是美国医院中死亡的第一大原因，是重新住院的第一原因，医院的最高成本为每年240亿美元。然而，根据最新的败血症联盟年度调查，仅58 percent of Americans已经听到了败血症一词，很少能解释它是什么。
仅有的58 percent of Americanshave heard the word sepsis, and significantly fewer can explain what it is
Admittedly, 58 percent awareness of sepsis in 2017 is higher than the 19 percent awareness that existed in 2007, the year Sepsis Alliance was founded. But given that fewer than 1 percent of American adults can tell you the symptoms of sepsis – compared with 72 percent who could identify a stroke – there is still a tremendous amount of work to be done.
什么是败血症？
简而言之，败血症是您身体对感染的有毒反应。通常，当您感染感染时，您的免疫系统会试图对其进行抗击。但是，使用败血症，您的免疫系统开始攻击您的身体。您的血压可能会危险低，您的器官可能会失效，并且您可能会遇到呼吸机以帮助您呼吸。它可以杀死你。
Treatment for sepsis is not complicated when it’s recognized early. It takes IV fluids and antibiotics. But once severe sepsis takes hold, your chances of survival drop by 8 percent for every hour you are not treated. But in order to be treated, it needs to be recognized.
Spreading awareness and educating
To address the need for education, over the past decade, Sepsis Alliance has developed a robust website and substantial web, print, and video resources for both the public and healthcare professionals. One of the hallmarks of the website is the Faces of Sepsis section, where more than 700 people have shared stories of how sepsis has touched their lives.
Our events team provides support to people who wish to hold awareness and fund-raising events and we support volunteers who prefer to work on a smaller scale, by giving talks or providing sepsis brochures and symptoms cards to their community.
We have provided speakers for various educational events, and formed partnerships with other health-related organizations, such as the Centers for Disease Control, American Association for Critical Care Nurses, the Amputee Coalition, and the Children’s Hosptital Association. These partnerships allow us to share resources so they may learn more about sepsis and we can learn more about their sepsis-related issues and how we can help.
败血症意识月goes global
The Global Sepsis Alliance, of which Sepsis Alliance is a founding member, declared September 13 to be World Sepsis Day
In 2011, Sepsis Alliance declared September to be败血症意识月。第一年，我们通过社交媒体和媒体提高了败血症的意识，并鼓励医疗保健专业人员讨论其设施中的败血症意识。第二年，败血症联盟是创始成员的全球败血症联盟，于9月13日宣布为世界败血症日。这也是败血症联盟的第一年举办其现在年度的Sepsis Heroes Gala在纽约市。
败血症意识月has taken off and is now observed world-wide, with professional events and workshops held in countries like Germany, New Zealand, Guatemala, and Mexico. September is also when we release our annual survey findings, to help bring home the need for this awareness month – and for awareness all year long.
为什么提高意识如此重要？
When sepsis is recognized early, it’s usually treatable. Jim O’Brien, MD, former chair of the SA Board of Directors, has frequently said that we could cut deaths to sepsis in the U.S. by half simply by providing fluids and antibiotics in a timely manner. But without recognition, treatment can’t begin.
这个词需要向社区出去如何识别signs of sepsis和to understand the need to seek medical help as quickly as possible. Up to 92 percent of sepsis cases come into the emergency room from people who became ill at home or at work.
If we want to cut down sepsis numbers we need to reach people in their communities, and to help caregivers understand the need for sepsis vigilance.
与患者一起工作的所有医疗保健专业人员都应在出现脓毒症症状或病史时牢记败血症，例如最近的手术程序，侵入性装置或感染。可疑败血症。拯救生命。这是败血症联盟标语。它有效。
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