An Atlanta woman lost her leg after doctors misdiagnosed her flesh-eating bacterial infection as a simple sprain.
Jennifer Barlow thought she was suffering from a bad knee sprain — then, she went septic.
“I was very concerned that she would not survive this,” said her physician, Dr. Jonathan Pollock from the Joseph Maxwell Cleland Atlanta VA Medical Center. “It is fair to say that her life was in grave danger.”necrotizing faciitisAccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, early intervention with antibiotics is key to treating the bacteria, which spreads rapidly and causes areas of the skin to become red, swollen and hot to the touch.
“I never in my life had heard of sepsis,” Barlow said. “And I had never heard of flesh-eating bacteria.” “We were all the way down to muscle on the thigh on her leg,” said Barlow, who estimates that she underwent over 30 surgeries.
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