re: OT Docs - Question about Sepsis and Dialysis

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This sounds very scary.

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The kidneys are "stunned" and may or may not work again. You can't live without kidneys (or dialysis). I shouldn't have put it quite as black and white as I did. It's more like "we think it's more likely it will progress to the point of danger than recovering by itself at this point."
So they're not pulling him from the brink of death, they're worried about him headed down that pathway and cutting it off at the head.