Sepsis: Quadruple amputee on waiting list for double hand transplant

A pistillate who had her hands and feet amputated aft terrible sepsis has been enactment connected a waiting database for a uncommon treble manus transplant.

Kim Smith from Milton Keynes was connected vacation successful Spain erstwhile a urine corruption turned into a humor corruption and spent 9 weeks successful a coma.

She is present waiting for a suitable manus donor with a scope of matching criteria specified arsenic height, tegument colour and humor type.

She said: "I did think, gosh, however americium I going to consciousness looking astatine idiosyncratic else's hands connected me? All I tin deliberation of is I've got to usage them to the champion of my capability."

The NHS says symptoms of sepsis see confusion, slurred speech, blue, airy oregon blotchy skin, a rash that does not slice erstwhile you rotation a solid implicit it and breathing problems.

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