A team of doctors at Michigan Medicine have successfully treated a child in severe septic shock and multiorgan failure with ...

Patients with sepsis also have acidosis (high acid levels in the blood), positive blood culture for bacteria, abnormal kidney or liver function, abnormal WBC count and a low platelet count.

For instance, the peripheral white blood cell count was 9.5 x 1000/μL (range, 3.0 – 14.9 x 1000/μL) in the aspirates from children with Lyme disease vs 12.5 (range, 5.5 – 30.1) in children ...

He had a hunch the patient was septic. “Pain and dropping white blood count doesn’t fit sepsis,” Viswanathan said. In fact, you’d expect the white blood cell count to skyrocket with infection.

“Dropping platelet counts can signal worsening of sepsis and monitoring different populations of white blood cells can help predict the severity of illness,” Glatter said.

Doctors at Michigan Medicine have reported a medical first: saving a young child in septic shock and experiencing failure of five organ systems using a new device called the Selective Cytopheretic ...