#critical-care

#critical-care

After 32 weeks in hospital, several cardiac arrests and a quadruple amputation, sepsis survivor Manjit Sangha has finally returned home. Despite medics thinking the 56-year-old would almost certainly die, she left Ward 9 at Moseley Hall in Birmingham on Wednesday, receiving a hero's welcome from her family in Penn, on the Wolverhampton/Staffordshire border. Doctors believe her sepsis might have been caused by something as innocent as a lick from her dog on a small cut or scratch.

Thirteen major hospitals will use a device that cleans patients' blood that has become corrupted by toxins as a result of them developing acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF). ACLF is a severe and hard-to-treat form of liver disease linked to obesity, alcohol and hepatitis, in which patients suddenly deteriorate and have to be admitted to intensive care. Three out of four people affected are only diagnosed when it has already become life-threatening.