At our four hospital institution we changed the critical value alert level of Lactic Acid down to >2.0. The lab data element shows red when >2 on our lab results review. The critical value is a call from the lab to the RN before the result is released. This has greatly improved our compliance and recognition of sepsis patients.
Jessica Dill, BSN, RN, CEN Sepsis Coordinator Emergency Department Sharp Healthcare -----Original Message----- From: Sepsisgroups [mailto:sepsisgroups-boun...@lists.sepsisgroups.org] On Behalf Of sepsisgroups-requ...@lists.sepsisgroups.org Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2016 12:11 PM To: sepsisgroups@lists.sepsisgroups.org Subject: Sepsisgroups Digest, Vol 219, Issue 7 Send Sepsisgroups mailing list submissions to sepsisgroups@lists.sepsisgroups.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to sepsisgroups-requ...@lists.sepsisgroups.org You can reach the person managing the list at sepsisgroups-ow...@lists.sepsisgroups.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Sepsisgroups digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Lactic Acid alerts from Lab (Pender.Linda) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 19:37:24 +0000 From: Pender.Linda <pender.li...@navicenthealth.org> To: "'sepsisgroups@lists.sepsisgroups.org'" <sepsisgroups@lists.sepsisgroups.org> Subject: [Sepsis Groups] Lactic Acid alerts from Lab Message-ID: <fcc656476d50d246a60aeb7d2780b1d7c2271...@ex-mb3.cghsnt.mccg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" What level of Lactic Acid does lab call to the Bedside nurse at your Hospital? I am in great need of this information because our hospital lab currently only calls for critical results which are > 4.0 mmol. We are requesting lab to change their practice and call for all Lactic Acid levels of > 2.0 mmol. Please let me know what your hospital is doing so I can help guide my hospital in the right direction. Thanks, Linda G. Pender RRT-NPS Sepsis Coordinator Patient Care Services Administration phone: 478-633-6806 pager: 4444 KNOW Sepsis: Inside & Out [MCCG...World Class Care! See our website...]<http://www.navicenthealth.org/> Email: pender.li...@navicenthealth.org CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information transmitted in this e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential, privileged, and/or proprietary information. Any unauthorized review, retransmission, use, disclosure, dissemination, or other use of, or taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, or other use of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail, or by calling (478) 633-7272, and destroy the original message, attachments, and all copies thereof on all computers and in any other form. Thank you. Navicent Health. http://www.navicenthealth.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/pipermail/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org/attachments/20160906/5fdee4e5/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 9451 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: <http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/pipermail/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org/attachments/20160906/5fdee4e5/attachment-0001.png> ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Sepsisgroups mailing list Sepsisgroups@lists.sepsisgroups.org http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org ------------------------------ End of Sepsisgroups Digest, Vol 219, Issue 7 ******************************************** _______________________________________________ Sepsisgroups mailing list Sepsisgroups@lists.sepsisgroups.org http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org
