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The Killer Within
Dana Press
December 2007
On Sale: December 3, 2007
225 pages
ISBN: 1932594094
EAN: 9781932594096
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Non-Fiction | Self-Help
Severe sepsis, a critical illness that most often afflicts
victims of initially nonfatal illnesses or injuries, is the
third-most-common killer in the United States. In Fatal
Sequence, neurosurgeon, immunologist, and clinical
investigator Kevin J. Tracey offers a chronicle both
scientific and human, using cases he personally experienced
to illustrate the clinical nightmare of organ failure that
typifies the disease.
In clear, accessible
language, Tracey explains how the brain, which normally
restrains the immune system and protects the patient, can
fail during severe sepsis—allowing the immune system to
indiscriminately kill normal cells along with foreign
microbes. Fatal Sequence is a compelling
documentation of an all-too-common situation: doctors
fighting to prevent patients’ deaths at the hands of
complications from injuries and illnesses that should never
be fatal in the first place.
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