Josh Tyrangiel
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And so they have a series of volunteers and these people are already busy.
but they volunteer to bring the technology into the system.
And so Cleveland Clinic, they did just one massive thing, right?
There's a very talented doctor from an emergency room doctor, a very talented ICU nurse.
And the two of them both were on what's called the sepsis committee.
Inside Cleveland Clinic.
Now, sepsis is the most deadly thing in America and around the world.
It's an infection.
It looks like about 30 other things.
The crazy part is we can cure it.
if we detect it.
If we detect it, it's just an infection.
You treat it with antibiotics, it goes away.
If you find it too late, it kills you.
And the way the nurse described it to me, she said, yeah, it's like you see a body rotting from the inside out.
You can smell sepsis inside a body.
But because it looks like so many other things, it can often show up and kill somebody inside a hospital, right?
Cleveland Clinic was losing thousands of patients a year, and it's one of the best healthcare institutions in the world.
So they went on this mission.
Some of it was training nurses and doctors to be on the lookout for it.