Survivorship: A Conversation with Katy Grainger

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Recorded On: 06/23/2021

Webinar Description: 

Dr. Karin Molander talks with Katy Grainger, a sepsis survivor about her experience following septic shock and multiple amputations. After desperately trying to save her hands and feet, her hands were saved, but one month after the onset of sepsis, Katy had both of her feet and all, but three fingertips amputated. Katy will share her remarkable story as well as discuss with Dr. Molander her journey through recovery and living life today.

This course was originally recorded in June 2021 as part of Sepsis Tech & Innovation. 

Target Audience:

Industry leaders, Public Policy Experts, Health and hospital Leadership (C-Suite, physicians, nurses, pharmacists, CIOs), Health quality and decision support leaders, Health Investors and VCs, Health and Technology Media, Health Advocates, Health Advisors, Health Educators, Health Marketers. 

Karin Molander, MD, FACEP

Emergency Medicine Physician

Mills Peninsula Emergency Medicine Associates

Karin Molander, MD, FACEP is an emergency medicine physician who provides emergency care to patients in the community setting, analyzes quality of care and is passionate about patient education. She previously served as a Sepsis Physician Champion for Sutter Health Services.

Dr. Molander received her medical degree from Rush Medical College in 1996 and completed her emergency medicine residency at Stanford University in 1999. She has practiced emergency medicine in community and academic settings. She initially became involved in the world of sepsis at Mills Peninsula Medical Center in 2007 training intensivists in central line placement to prepare them for Early Goal Directed Therapy (an initial component of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign). This opportunity triggered an increased awareness and interest in managing the septic patient, prompting her to join the MPMC Sepsis committee in 2009.

Dr. Molander became chair of the Sepsis Committee in 2011 and found that a collaborative approach involving nurses, pharmacists-every level of staff-and physicians catalyzed the hospital to succeed in identifying and treating this large and previously underappreciated population. She participated in the LEAN process to develop a sepsis Initiative for Sutter Area Hospitals as part of an initial 14 hospital (now 24 hospital) collaborative. The collaborative developed electronic health record (EPIC) order sets, screening tools, standard work for management of the septic shock and the severe sepsis patient within the Sutter RPIW (Rapid Process Improvement Workshop) team. They also created identification and treatment protocols that would work throughout the Sutter System-from the community hospital to the academic urban hospital, and participated in the Beacon Collaborative and Hospital Quality Institute improvement programs on sepsis. Mills Peninsula Medical Center served as the beta test site for the electronic health record launch as the sepsis initiative was incorporated into the Sutter system. Since the founding of the sepsis program, sepsis mortality has decreased by 69%-placing Mills Peninsula Medical Center in the top five percent for performance nationwide. It was through this experience that Dr. Molander realized the importance of EACH member of the sepsis treatment team and she is now developing education programs to assist skilled nursing facilities, emergency medical responders, patients and patients’ families.

Katy Grainger

Sepsis Survivor, Board of Directors Member

Sepsis Alliance

Katy Grainger is a recent sepsis survivor and multiple amputee. In September 2018, she became ill with what she thought was "just the flu" but was admitted into the hospital 2 days later with life-threatening septic shock. Fortunately, her physicians identified sepsis and began a protocol that saved her life. They were unable to save her lower legs and 7 of her fingertips. Katy has found a new energy and passion to spread sepsis awareness in the hopes of preventing others from having her experience. Katy joined the Board of Sepsis Alliance in January 2020 and has been sharing her sepsis patient experience to enlighten others about this horrible syndrome. Sepsis Alliance posted a video of her story on YouTube. In the past 3 months this video has been viewed over 120,000 times by people worldwide.

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