Healthy Living: Sepsis Awareness Month

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - September is Sepsis Awareness Month.

According to the Alabama Hospital Association, sepsis is a serious condition, both inside the hospital and in the community, noting that Alabama has the second highest rate of sepsis in the country based on the CDC’s data. The CDC also states that sepsis claims the lives of 350,000 adults each year in the United States – more than from prostate cancer, breast cancer, and opioid overdose combined.

If individuals can remember the acronym “TIME,” it will help. “TIME” stands for “abnormal Temperature,” “signs of an Infection,” “Mental decline,” and “Extremely ill (severe pain or shortness of breath).

Registered Nurse Christa Hewett, the Quality and Performance Improvement Coordinator with USA Health University Hospital, joined us in the studio with more on this important topic.

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