Brazilian Model dies of Septicemia

CNN Miami (UISA) : Dateline – January 24, 2009

The famous Brazilian model, Mariana Bridi da Casta, died early this morning, after a hard battle with blood poisoning, otherwise known as septicaemia.  She was 20 years old.

Originally triggered by a UTI (Urinary Tract Infection) it snowballed into a deadly condition – which resulted in septicaemia.  She went in to the ultimate stage i.e. septicaemia with shock and inspite of the best effort by doctors of US, the year old died.

  

55 year old business survives Septicemia

DESUN Kolkata: Dateline – 19^th Decembert 2008

55 year male patient with no significant past medical history: After returning from a trip to Patna, had fever accompanied by chills.  Two days later he fell unconscious and was brought into DESUN emergency at 12.00 O’clock  at night.  Patient was immediately admitted into DESUNICU and a series of tests where performed including advanced pathology tests where it was revealed that the patient had septicaemia with shock where the survival rate is less than 5%.  The blood culture revealed that he had pneumococcal septicaemia.  A team of 5 specialists of different departments arrived within  2 hours of admission and started treating the patient.  He was out of ventilator after  7 days and went back home within two weeks fully recovered.

CONCLUSION

A stand-alone heart institute model for a hospital has not been successful any where in the world.  DESUN  is the only heart Institute in Eastern India which, besides the super speciality heart institute, has 26 other medical department.  Each by themselves have a level of excellence and also support all kinds of problems that a cardiac patient may have – be it related to neurology, gastroenterology, nephrology or any other discipline . Combined with above infrastructure and facilities it is the tremendous speed at which DESUN  can get speciality doctors, to attend the patient perform investigations even at midnight which is the major contributor for saving time and thus life of patients.  The specialists

at DESUN physically come over, clinically examine the patient and also talk to the patient party.  As a policy, doctors at DESUN do not give instruction over the phone for Emergency Admission cases admission cased admitted o the ICVU/ITU.

‘THE UNIQUE TIME CRITICAL EMERGENCY CARE UNIT”, for which DESUN has become extremely popular in Kolkata and surrounding districts takes over as soon as the patient comes into the Hospital Emergency and needs ICU/ITU admission.  With 24 hous Pathology, Radiology , Cardiology, the investigations gets done at a very high s[peed and OTs are in standby mode for any Emergency Surgery round the clock.