This is the biggest plague on the rising generation. Unchecked access for young people gambling and “prediction market” BS will cause major issues in society in the decades to come.
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.
@Utahfarmersorg1 I’m not an expert but I grew up in St George and am 33. I remember Sand Hollow being built so I don’t think the 40 year stat is correct. But generally agree, we need more reservoirs
It really feels like #LSU is doing all the things that guys talking sports at the bar would suggest but no AD in their right mind would / could do.
Pay the $54 million buyout, fire Brian Kelly and bring in Lane Kiffin? Sure.
And bring in Coach O to recruit? Yep.
Then let’s give him $40M+ for the portal? No problem.
And while we’re at it, let’s bring back Will Wade, because paying players is legal now? Of course.
And let’s bring back Johnny Jones too, that guy could recruit. Why not?
And since there’s no rules in the portal, let’s just bring in a bunch of fringe NBA players? Done.
It’s kind of wild to see so many pipe dreams come to reality in one offseason…
@iiTzz_Tyrell Robot > Electric > Gas
Robot lawn mower has been one of the best ROI money I’ve ever spent. So great.
I suppose the only thing better is maybe really nice turf.