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| Alternative Names: | Blood poisoning; Bacteremia with sepsis
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| Symptoms: | - fever (sudden onset, often spiking)
- chills
- toxic looking (looks acutely ill)
- changes in mental state
- shock
- cold
- clammy
- pale
- cyanotic (blue)
- unresponsive
- skin signs associated with clotting abnormalities
- petechiae
- ecchymosis (often large, flat, purplish lesions that do not blanch when pressed)
- gangrene (early changes in the extremities suggesting decreased or absent blood flow)
- decreased or no urine output
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Review Date: 12/5/2001
Reviewed By: Camille Kotton, M.D., Infectious Diseases Division, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.
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