{"id":45353,"date":"2017-09-29T12:34:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T12:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=45353"},"modified":"2017-09-29T12:34:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T12:34:39","slug":"woman-loses-hands-legs-sepsis-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/health\/woman-loses-hands-legs-sepsis-battle.html","title":{"rendered":"Woman loses both hands, legs after sepsis battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Woman loses both hands, legs after sepsis battle<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Woman loses both hands, legs after sepsis battle:-A 50-year-old Georgia woman is lucky to be alive after losing all four limbs to a sepsis infection that she initially thought was a case of the flu. Kim Steele, whose medical plight began in May 2016, was at one point given just a 9 percent chance of survival, Fox 5 Atlanta reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Steele was rushed to Piedmont Henry Hospital where she was admitted to the facility\u2019s ICU and fell into septic shock.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cWithin 30 minutes of when I got there, I coded the first time,\u201d she told the news outlet. \u201cThen I coded again. I was out five minutes they brought me back. I coded again, I was out three minutes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Dr. Greg Evans, who treated Steele at the time, believes pneumonia may have been the cause of her infection. She was placed in a medically induced coma and treated with antibiotics and medication that cut blood flow to her limbs. Months later she became a quadruple amputee, Fox 5 Atlanta reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cI got in such a deep depression, I didn\u2019t think I would be able to do anything again,\u201d she told the news outlet. \u201cI thought my life was over.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Now 16 months later, Steele is living independently again, and walking and cooking with the help of prosthetic limbs. Evans said his former patient \u201ctruly is a survivor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cIf you have a mindset to be strong, work hard, you can do anything you put your mind to,\u201d Steele told the news outlet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source:-http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2017\/09\/28\/woman-loses-both-hands-legs-after-sepsis-battle.html<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/health\/woman-loses-hands-legs-sepsis-battle.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman loses both hands, legs after sepsis battle Woman loses both hands, legs after sepsis battle:-A 50-year-old Georgia woman is lucky to be alive after losing all four limbs to a sepsis infection that she initially thought was a case of the flu. 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