Sepsis is a significant cause of death and disability in the UK. According to the UK Sepsis Trust, 37,000 people are estimated to die of sepsis each year. Current evidence-based guidelines emphasise the need for good initial assessment and immediate treatment, but in busy hospital departments, these protocols are not always followed. Sepsis: improving recognition […]
More evidence to support the early implementation of sepsis care in the prehospital setting – give fluids early!
Speakers include Dr Ron Daniels (Chair of UK Sepsis Trust), Mike Smyth (West Midlands Ambulance Service), Paul Gowens (Quality Unit, Scottish Government) and Tholli Wood (Isle of Wight Ambulance Service) Delegate Rate £60 (£30 College of Paramedics members) Lunch and refreshments included Note: UK Sepsis Trust has no financial or other relation with Nova/any other […]
David Fitzpatrick and colleagues investigate medical and nursing staff perceptions and experiences of the introduction of a pre-hospital sepsis screening tool (PSST) to expedite sepsis identification and care delivery
SSC continues to recommend all elements of the current sepsis resuscitation bundles.
World Society of Emergency Surgery position paper on abdmonial sepsis, providing an overview of current best-practice management.
In a multicenter randomised trial conducted in the tertiary care setting, protocol-based resuscitation of patients in whom septic shock was diagnosed in the emergency department did not improve outcomes.
Some of the major points from smaccGOLD (Social Media & Critical Care Conference) which took place from the 19th-21st March in Australia’s Gold Coast.
Abstract Prehospital staff have made a significant contribution in recent years to improving care for patients with acute coronary syndrome, multiple trauma and stroke. There is, however, another group of patients that is not currently being targeted, with a similar time-critical condition. This group of patients is those with severe sepsis and septic shock and […]
Full text (free) – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3622444/ Abstract Rationale Severe sepsis is common and highly morbid, yet the epidemiology of severe sepsis at the frontier of the health care system-pre-hospital emergency care-is unknown. Objectives We examined the epidemiology of pre-hospital severe sepsis among emergency medical services (EMS) encounters, relative to acute myocardial infarction and stroke. Methods Retrospective study […]
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