Dr. Ranganathan - Depending upon the charting system you are currently using within your facility, there are numerous ways to "capture" this data and monitor it concurrently. Currently our facility uses Medi-tech (just another word for ancient I'm certain); however, it does allow me to run reports to capture any patients who may have been discharged with a diagnosis of Severe Sepsis and/or Septic Shock. I also review patients daily who have had "positive" sepsis screens, lactic acids and/or procalcitonins drawn. I keep a file for all inpatients who I am watching concurrently and update it daily with information pertaining to the goals of our Sepsis Bundles. At the end of the month we have Division calls to compare our data and see what is or is not working in the different facilities. We've decreased our overall mortality by almost 40% since last June alone, and we continue to make progress daily. If you're interested in any of the "tools" I use, please don't hesitate to contact me. Hope this helps some. Thanks.
Leah "Michelle" Garrison, RN Facility Sepsis Coordinator Coliseum Medical Center [email protected] Office: 478-765-4164 Cell: 478-256-9848 "It is not our condition, but the caliber of our soul, that makes us happy" ~Voltaire~ This email and any files transmitted with it may contain PRIVILEGED or CONFIDENTIAL information and may be read or used only by the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of the email or any of its attachments, please be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, distribution, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email or any attached files is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately purge it and all attachments and notify the sender by reply email. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dr.Mohan Ranganathan Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 9:24 AM To: Ron Elkin; Dr.Sunil T Pandya Cc: [email protected] Subject: [Sepsis Groups] Monitoring sepsis care Dear all, Does any one know how to audit/monitor the care given to sepsis patients. My hospital is asking us to monitor and report back the sepsis care. Presently we do not have any system to do this. We take info. given by outreach nurses (who are all ICU trained) to capture sepsis patients currently. This does not capture all the sepsis patients in the hospital since some patients are not that unwell to require outreach nursing care. I thought of asking all of you, especially people from UK if you have any system/way to capture all the sepsis patients in your hospital. I remember Ron Daniels replied something along this line in another e-mail few months ago. I would be grateful for your reply. Many thanks in advance Mohan Dr Mohan Ranganathan Consultant Anaesthetist Lead for sepsis George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust Nuneaton UK
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