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What's going on with septicemia in 20 South Korean patients undergoing plastic surgery

4hw.com.cn: as we all know, South Korea is a place with superb plastic surgery technology. Recently, there are news reports that 20 people in South Korea can suffer from septicemia after plastic surgery. What's the matter?

Recently, 20 clients of a dermatology department in Seoul, South Korea, underwent cosmetic surgery after injecting propofol, an anesthetic. However, they suffered from septicemia and were sent to hospital for treatment. Fortunately, none of them are life-threatening, and the Department of health speculated that there was a possibility of deterioration of the dermatology injection.

South Korea Associated Press said that the incident site is located in the south of the south of Seoul, a dermatology department, from 7, there have been signs of sepsis customers, and was sent to hospital for treatment. At present, a total of 20 people are arranged in the emergency rooms of six hospitals, with no life-threatening at present, the report said.

Police said the patients had undergone skin pulling or whitening operations, and they had been injected with propofol before the operation. After the dermatology department found the disease, it called the police at night on the 7th local time.

The report said the health department speculated that there was a possibility of deterioration of the dermatology injection. In addition, the police plan today (8) to join the disease management headquarters to carry out identification work, and then will carry out an investigation on the head of dermatology department and nurses to find out whether there is any business fault.

What is the cause of septicemia

Septicemia refers to the clinical syndrome caused by the invasion of pathogenic bacteria and their toxins into the blood stream, which is a serious blood stream infection. Therefore, septicemia is caused by pathogenic bacteria. Pathogenic bacteria usually refer to bacteria, but also fungi, mycobacteria and so on. During the course of disease, there are often activation and release of inflammatory mediators.

Septicemia is not contagious. If you have septicemia, you need to infect the pathogenic bacteria. It is characterized by acute shivering, high fever, severe systemic infection and poisoning, skin stasis, large liver and spleen, progressive anemia and migratory focus. Severe cases may result in shock, DIC and multiple organ failure.