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Elizabeth Leweling's avatar

Echoing a couple points - this was a normal 12 year old playing basketball two days before being UNABLE TO BEAR WEIGHT. Bad shit is going on. Tachycardic AF, which is a harbinger of freaking doom in pediatric sepsis and the bandemia meant something foreboding was in the mix, even if the CRP was only 18. The expert indicating a lack of hypotension means no sepsis...kids compensate until they fall off the cliff. This poor family deserves every penny, if not more. Just makes my blood boil.

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Robert Farrell's avatar

I found the defense's first expert's opinion the most disturbing part of the whole case. He wasn't hypotensive? Well he was, first of all, relative to the amount of pain he was in, but putting that aside, who the hell thinks in this day and age that you have to be hypotensive to be septic? Or you have to have a fever? Come on, my dude, do better.

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