CDC Safe Healthcare Blog: A Mother's Account: "If we had known about sepsis, we would have looked for sepsis."

Today, on CDC’s Safe Healthcare Blog, Orlaith Staunton, mother of 12-year-old sepsis victim Rory Staunton, shares her family’s tragic story in hopes of preventing other families from suffering at the hands of sepsis.

In just a couple short days, Rory went from a healthy, active boy who scraped his arm playing basketball to developing severe sepsis. Since Rory’s death, Orlaith and her family have become steadfast advocates of sepsis awareness, successfully working to develop and implement Rory’s Regulations, a set of protocols to identify or rule out sepsis early, especially in hospital emergency departments. The family’s organization, The Rory Staunton Foundation, will host the First National Forum on Sepsis: Defeating the Killer, on September 17 in Washington, DC. Join the conversation at http://blogs.cdc.gov/safehealthcare