Routine surgery can lead to that? All that paperwork they make you sign before any surgery? It's legal-ese for "sometimes shit happens, we're human, the body is a fragile thing". The definition for septic shock is constantly changing. I think the largest held def. is that it's an almost idiopathic immune response to something done to the body, and kidney failure is a big part of it. It's treatable, but the key is to stop the body from shutting down. Once that's done you basically deal with the aftermath. Necrotic tissue is dead, and there's no regeneration possible. At least, not on as large of a scale as to recover dead fingers and toes. The body does maintain circulation on the live tissue around the dead stuff, though. Once you stop the shock the necrosis doesn't tend to spread AFAIK.
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Date: 2007-02-22 01:46 pm (UTC)All that paperwork they make you sign before any surgery? It's legal-ese for "sometimes shit happens, we're human, the body is a fragile thing". The definition for septic shock is constantly changing. I think the largest held def. is that it's an almost idiopathic immune response to something done to the body, and kidney failure is a big part of it. It's treatable, but the key is to stop the body from shutting down. Once that's done you basically deal with the aftermath. Necrotic tissue is dead, and there's no regeneration possible. At least, not on as large of a scale as to recover dead fingers and toes. The body does maintain circulation on the live tissue around the dead stuff, though. Once you stop the shock the necrosis doesn't tend to spread AFAIK.