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Sepsis kills more people in American hospitals than heart attacks. 350,000 deaths a year, and the reason is brutally simple: the early warning signs are almost invisible.
A slightly elevated heart rate. A small temperature shift. A lab value drifting in the wrong direction. Each one looks like noise on a busy ward. By the time the pattern is obvious to a human, the patient is hours into a cascade toward organ failure, and every hour of delayed antibiotics raises mortality.
Tampa General built a system on Palantir's Foundry that watches roughly 1,000 inpatients continuously. Vitals, labs, medication records, clinician notes, all scanned in real time for the pattern no single nurse can see across 12 beds at 3am. When risk crosses a threshold, a rapid response team gets paged. Humans still make every treatment decision. The software just compresses detection from hours to minutes.
The results since 2022: overall sepsis mortality cut in half, 48-hour deaths down 68%, length of stay down 30%, roughly 900 lives saved. At one hospital.
Now run the national math. There are about 6,100 hospitals in the US. If even the 500 largest matched these numbers, you'd be looking at tens of thousands of lives a year from a single use case. The treatment for sepsis hasn't changed. Antibiotics and fluids, same as decades ago. The entire gain comes from starting them earlier.
The hardest problem in medicine was never the cure. It was noticing in time.
Ro Khanna blames Donald Trump for frustration over the Palisades Fire, which makes perfect sense for one of Congress’ least intelligent members because Trump wasn’t in office yet when the fires happened, and has nothing to do with local permitting delays
@EPotterMD@mattMD Dr. Potter, as someone who works with a number of independent allergy practices, I’m sorry to read about the demise of your father‘s practice. I’m glad I am able to help a number of private #allergy practices survive and thrive while remaining independent.
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@InvestingDoc Congratulations! Not surprising. I have been asked about this several times by people working with our consulting company that helps #allergists.