“We must alert the French about sepsis, a very dangerous infection, but entirely preventable”

2024-04-18T09:28:56.962Z

Highlights: Professor Djillali Annane is head of the adult medical intensive care unit at the Raymond-Poincaré hospital in Garches. During the Covid crisis, this doctor dedicated to the most difficult cases was one of the media "white coats" who enlightened the public on the seriousness of the Sars-CoV-2 infection and the necessary humanity that required its support. Sepsis is an abnormal response of our body prey to an infection by a virus, a bacteria, a parasite, a fungus... Ordinarily, when we are contaminated by a pathogen, the body develops inflammation, it is a response physiological which aims to rid us of the intruder. In the vast majority of cases, this happens correctly, without complications. The majority of people who develop sepsis do not suffer any complications. It is estimated that 80,000 people in France die from the disease every year. The number of deaths from Sars is expected to rise to 100,000 in the next few years.

INTERVIEW - Djillali Annane, head of the intensive care unit at the Raymond-Poincaré hospital in Garches, deplores the lack of awareness of this disease responsible for 80,000 deaths per year in France.