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Guidelines developed by critical-care groups suggest sepsis should be suspected if patients exhibit any two of four symptoms: a fast heartbeat, fast breathing, either fever or chills, or a high or low white blood cell count.

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Furthermore, in critical-care situations, the patient might be unconscious and, therefore, unable to grant access to essential health information.

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Max Harry Weil 1927-2011 Max Harry Weil developed those beeping machines to monitor heart rates and other modern practices in critical-care units, transforming the treatment of stroke and heart-attack patients.

He Led Critical Care Into the Modern Age Stephen Miller 2011

"We need to treat patients who walk into the emergency room with signs of sepsis as a real medical emergency, like stroke, heart attack or trauma," says James O'Brien , a critical-care specialist at the Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus, and a director of the nonprofit Sepsis Alliance, which offers information for medical professionals and consumers on its website.

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Died: Max Harry Weil, 84, critical-care doctor who pioneered heart monitors.

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Now located at Rancho Mirage, Calif., and renamed for Dr. Weil, the institute has been a source of innovations in critical-care medicine including heart and pulse monitors, computer-aided medical decision-making and an automated CPR machine.

He Led Critical Care Into the Modern Age Stephen Miller 2011

Dr. Weil was also renowned as a teacher, training thousands of doctors and nurses in critical-care medicine.

He Led Critical Care Into the Modern Age Stephen Miller 2011

Mr. Parkinson disclosed during Thursday's call that Baxter recently received an FDA warning letter pegged to issues the agency found during inspections at the Puerto Rico facilities, where the company makes nutrition and critical-care products, plus an anesthesia agent.

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In a 2010 review article on the evolution of critical-care medicine he wrote, "The reality is that the modern hospital is becoming one large Intensive Care Unit."

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Sept. 1980 Commissioned an officer in the U.S. Army Reserves, Charlottesville, Va.; held rank of captain and worked as a critical-care nurse.

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