Gaining a better understanding of and improving outcomes for sepsis are the focus
of Flavia Machado s career. Speaking to The Lancet Respiratory Medicine in her office
in São Paulo Hospital (São Paulo, Brazil) she explains, “It is absolutely critical
that all health-care workers understand that the patient they have in front of them
could have sepsis, and in most cases there is a critical 1 h window for starting antibiotic
therapy. We must also continue to educate the public about this killer condition.”