Sepsis can affect blood pressure.
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People are being urged to watch out for the warning signs of sepsis after the condition led to hundreds of “preventable” deaths in Tayside and Grampian hospitals last year.
More than 3,500 confirmed cases of sepsis – an infection of the blood which causes the body to create a strong immune response – were recorded in NHS Tayside hospitals over the past five years.
In the last full year where data is available, 26 people lost their lives to blood poisoning in Tayside and it was recorded as a secondary cause in 133 deaths.