Septicaemia and septic shock


  • Health
  • Sunday, 10 Apr 2005

Pope John Paul II died of complication from septic shock.

I READ in the newspapers that the pope died of septic shock and cardiopulmonary collapse. Some of the other newspapers mentioned blood poisoning and blood vessel collapse. Are they one and the same? 

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