On October 11, 2022, the Grayson County Sheriff’s Department in Sherman, Texas, filed a custodial death report (CDR) with the Attorney General of Texas. The report provides details about the incarceration and death of 53-year-old Reatha Sue Robinson, who was booked into Grayson County Jail in Sherman, Texas, on January 1, 2022. She was pronounced deceased on September 24, 2022. The address of Grayson County Jail is 200 S. Crockett Street, Sherman TX 75090.

Three Stages of Sepsis

From the viewpoint of many physicians, sepsis is a type of infection that develops in three stages, which are referred to as sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock. The best scenario is to treat sepsis during the first stage, which is also the mildest.

In Texas, minimum jail standards are established by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS), and that organization reports that most complaints are about medical care. If this is an indication that an inmate may develop sepsis but the jail’s medical staff may be slow in identifying the problem, stage one sepsis could easily progress to severe sepsis or deadly septic shock.

Each year about 1.5 million people are diagnosed with sepsis, a condition that kills 250,000 people every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). According to a global statistic, 42% of the people in intensive care units with sepsis end up dying.

Learn more in Part 1 and Part 2 of this ongoing series. More detailed information about the three stages of sepsis will be provided in the next installment.

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–Guest Contributor