Re: [Sepsis Groups] Sepsisgroups Digest, Vol 219, Issue 6; Coordinator

2016-09-12 Thread Long, Diane
We have 202 beds and I do sepsis and stroke. Diane Long PhD, RN, SCRN Texas Health Southwest Ft Worth Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note5, an AT 4G LTE smartphone Original message From: sepsisgroups-requ...@lists.sepsisgroups.org Date: 9/9/16 5:52 PM (GMT-06:00) To:

Re: [Sepsis Groups] Sepsisgroups Digest, Vol 219, Issue 6; Coordinator

2016-09-12 Thread Fay Shinder
We have 462 beds, and my position is dedicated to my sepsis coordinator duties. Fay Shinder, RN, BSN Sepsis Program Coordinator Long Beach Memorial Medical Center 2801 Atlantic Avenue Long Beach, CA 90806-1737 T: (562) 933-7032 F: (562) 933-7109 From: Sepsisgroups

[Sepsis Groups] Cerner and St. John's Sepsis Alert

2016-09-12 Thread Alexis Moore
My facility will be changing our EMR to Cerner in April. Does your facility use Cerner and the St. John's Sepsis Alert? What is the nursing procedure/protocol when an alert is triggered? I am trying to get ahead of the game and work on initiating nurse driven protocols. Any insight would be

Re: [Sepsis Groups] Sepsisgroups Digest, Vol 219, Issue 7

2016-09-12 Thread Sue Beswick
Our lab norm goes up to 2.2. Any thing above that gets called. We had our sepsis team lead physician talk to lab about the importance of severe sepsis before it gets worse (4.0 or hypotension). Lab was concerned about too many extra calls but it's worked out fine Sue Sent from my iPad > On

[Sepsis Groups] Lactic Acid Alert

2016-09-12 Thread Jessica Dill (ER)
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

Re: [Sepsis Groups] Sepsis coordinator ?

2016-09-12 Thread Jose Eduardo Gomes de Vasconcellos
Hi I'm a sepsis coordinator who remain in the hospital for 10 hours a day and I perform a focused period of 3 hours in data analysis, review of records daily with the case manager and the hospital has 290 beds currently work Hospital de Clinicas Luzia de Pinho Melo - Mogi das Cruzes - SPDM Sao