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Lake Success, New York (Vocus) 29 September 2010

Jackie For Wang, it was just a garden-variety infection was slowing. But her doctor realized that the 29-year-old Manhasset, NY woman sick enough to go to the emergency room. When she learned at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, his bodyâ? S immune system had led a major attack on endangered his lungs and other organs? and his life.

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is half a million Americans each year, sepsis or septic shock, a potentially fatal immune reaction which, more than 200,000 deaths annually in the United States claims. Jackie Wang is one of the lucky ones. She survived.

When she

from a coma 10 days, what was needed to save his life induced awoke and learned she had blood poisoning, the young woman looked confused, what ??????????? s sepsis ? She asked. She is not alone. About 60 percent of adults do not know what is sepsis, a new survey by the Institute for Medical Research Feinstein, a part of the system of the North Shore-Lij promote health. The survey of 1,000 adults in the United States found that:

69 percent of seniors aged 65 and over are not familiar with the term â? Sepsis.â? Studies show that seniors are more at risk for developing infections because they often chronic conditions that weaken their immune system and make sensitive.
Knowledge varies by region. Adults in the southern states are less familiar with the term â? Sepsis, â? despite the fact that a recently published study shows death rates are highest in the southern States1.
63 percent of men compared with 55 percent of women are not familiar with sepsis. Published research shows that men and women a higher mortality rate.
67 percent of African-Americans are not against 58 percent of Caucasians and 57 percent of Hispanics familiar with sepsis. Research has shown that African-Americans have higher infection rates than the general population, and that African-American men have higher mortality
Only 50 percent of graduates were familiar with sepsis compared with 24 percent of respondents with high school diploma or less.

Feinstein Institute published the results of the survey on the heels Merinoff Symposium, a two-day international conference that brought together more than 150 scientists, doctors and other experts from 18 countries sepsis. The conference is this Thursday and Friday, September 30th and 1st October at the Feinstein Institute in Manhasset, NY, recognized as a leader in sepsis research, receives more dollars per year in grants Related Research sepsis.

â? Lack of awareness and understanding is one of the most important challenges we face in healthcare today, â? said Kevin J. Tracey, MD, President of the Feinstein Institute and a pioneer in research sepsis. â? A death in four hospitals are caused by sepsis, but most Americans have never heard of the condition. Sepsis is a mystery to most> Americans.â ????

At a press conference today, Ms. Wang, the lung specialist in the diagnosis and treatment to help her, Mark Rosen, MD, and others interested in public awareness of sepsis North Shore LIJA? s Health System? ? s reproduced Patient Safety Institute in Lake Success, where his case was in a simulation session by the staff of PSI, highlighting the complexity of sepsis and challenges of doctors and nurses are faced faced with identification of potential symptoms of sepsis and make an accurate and rapid diagnosis .

â? I was very surprised when they told me I had sepsis. I never heard of him, a part? She said. Ms. Wang shares her story so that the public gains an understanding of the state. â? This could be done to ????

anyone.â

also todayâ? s press conference Carl Flatley, DDS, founder and president of the Sepsis Alliance, an organization, the early detection and effective management of sepsis were concentrated. A Florida dentist, Dr. Flately founded the group after her daughter’s 23-year-old healthy woman entered a hospital for elective surgery in 2002 and later died of sepsis five days. Then he became a victim himself sepsis.

fight against sepsis in North Shore LIJA? s 15 hospitals throughout the greater New York, Dr. Tracey has shared with Kenneth Abrams, MD, the health care system? s senior vice president started the clinical operations that find a program, the nursing staff to early signs of infection in patient characteristics, and the first sign of trouble, to treat early and aggressively.

About the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research

headquarters in Manhasset, NY, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research is home to international scientific leaders in cancer, leukemia, lymphoma, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s disease? S disease, psychiatric disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, sepsis, inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes, human genetics, neuroimmunology, and medicinal chemistry. Feinstein researchers develop new drugs and therapeutic targets, and producing results where science meets the patient, per year enroll approximately 10,000 patients in clinical research programs.

Contacts

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Betty Olt
: 516 – 465-2645

Cell: 516-491-5617 pin (at) NHHS (dot) edu
Jamie Talan
: 516-562-1232
Cell :516-
330-6498 jtalan (at) NHHS (dot) edu

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