Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 April 2023
Committee on Public Petitions
Public Petition on Lil Reds Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign: Engagement with the HSE
Dr. Colm Henry:
I will hand that question over to Dr. O'Dwyer in a second. As we outlined earlier, infection is very common but sepsis is a dysfunction or a response, to put in those terms, to infection that is life-threatening. As the Deputy may know, infection in primary care is very common where, in the course of a day, a GP might see many people with acute viral illnesses, but in the course of a lifetime would see very few people with full-blown sepsis. I ask Dr. O'Dwyer to elaborate on that point.
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