Dr. Diana Kane, the chair and medical director of Emergency Medicine at Chester County Hospital, learned first-hand the dangers of sepsis, writes Fran Maye for the Daily Local News.
Following an outpatient procedure at a local surgical center, Kane ignored the signals pointing to sepsis until it was almost too late. When she finally admitted she was sick, she spent seven days in the hospital and received antibiotics and fluids intravenously during her first month at home.
It took nine weeks before she could return to work.
“That first week home, I remember walking to the bottom of my driveway to get the mail and I couldn’t get back to the house,” said Kane.
Now, she is using her experience to educate people on the warning signs of sepsis.
Last year, Kane helped establish Penn Medicine’s Sepsis Alliance. Led by faculty and staff from the health system’s hospitals, the Sepsis Alliance was formed to improve the response to the rise in sepsis.
Read more about Dr. Diana Kane and Penn Medicine’s Sepsis Alliance in the Daily Local News here.
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