I am a respiratory therapist. There is nothing I said that was even close to being "incredibly false." I would be analyzing what I could have done differently if he would have been my patient. Maybe there was nothing that could have been done differently but maybe there was.
I have an insane amount of respect for RT’s so I’m not gonna push back on you to hard here but have you actually checked mortality rates because most studies will disagree with this point with severe sepsis. That’s not even taking into account the mortality rates for immediate years post sepsis.
If you get lucky and catch it early when it’s a mild case, get quick care and have the right medical team around you then those odds do increase dramatically but that’s if things go right. I probably should have used the term “misleading” instead of false as it’s obv case by case but every hour of delay that mortality rate increases.
To your point while I push back on the mortality issues I do agree that for an individual with the means and resources available it’s likely there were steps that could have been taken to change the outcome but also that (as you know) these things can spiral very quickly if not given that quick care.
(Btw I know you probably know a lot or all of that, was more to just inform others. Forever thankful to all the RT’s that stepped up during Covid, took you guys a but for granted before that earlier in my career)
