Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 November 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion
Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I am conscious that there is a public information element to this in the symptoms that people get. These include low blood pressure, fever and increased heart rate. Further, Lil Red’s Legacy Sepsis Awareness Campaign talks about shivering fever, feeling very cold, extreme pain or discomfort, pale or discoloured skin, being sleepy and difficult to rouse, being confused, feeling like you might die and being short of breath. That is not to frighten people at home or to make them think their child has that. If someone has a sense of something and they know their own child, they might tick one or two of those boxes. Is there anything the witnesses would like to add to that?
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