31. This usually results in life-threatening disease such as septic shock and may lead to meningitis. 32. Manuel died Dec . 29 from septic shock . 33. Septic shock is diagnosed if there is low blood pressure that does not respond to treatment.34. Septic shock may lead to kidney failure, bleeding diathesis, and disseminated intravascular coagulation ( DIC ).35. The defense claimed that the boy died from septic shock resulting from a severe staph infection. 36. I know now that she must have been in septic shock , that her veins had collapsed, 37. I told them to buy stock in Zoma, a company that was working on septic shock . 38. Lia's " life was ruined not by septic shock or noncompliant parents but by crosscultural misunderstanding," 39. Holly Patterson died Sept . 17, 2003, of septic shock caused by inflammation of the uterus. 40. The Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines advocate intravenous hydrocortisone only in adults with septic shock and refractory hypotension.