Professor Akash Deep, paediatric ontensivist at King’s, who organised the conference, and who lost his own mother to sepsis, said: “Sepsis is a medical emergency. The condition is not easy to diagnose and can present as a range of other conditions. That is why, if a patient is deteriorating, it is vital that we as medical professionals ask ourselves, ‘could this be sepsis?’. And we have to empower our patients and their relatives to ask that question as well.”
