Absolutely! SIRS and source = screen...automatic. Sent from Rich's iPhone
On Sep 10, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Karin <[email protected]> wrote: > Does your facility obtain lactates on patients with acute appendicitis or > cholecystitis? > Karin Molander MD > MPHS Burlingame CA > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 7, 2012, at 9:28 AM, "Jessica Harkey" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello there. I also struggle with capturing our sepsis patients outside of >> the ICU as well. For purposes of performance data collection I am focusing >> on all patients admitted to the ICU with severe sepsis or septic shock. It >> is much easier to start with a smaller group, and initially we reported on >> only those admitted to the ICU from the Emergency Dept. I also report on ALL >> mortalities regardless of point of entry to the hospital. To help me better >> find the patients as close to real-time as possible who may be in-house and >> will benefit from follow-up, each morning I run a report of lactic acid >> results and review the electronic census for each nursing unit to look for >> diagnoses/chief complaints of sepsis or other infectious processes, >> hypotension, etc. I also receive notification from our concurrent coding >> staff as well as monthly reports from decision support of patients >> discharged with severe sepsis/septic shock and from that report I pull the >> mortalities. >> Overall until we establish a consistent & solid house-wide screening process >> and implement our Sepsis Alert process I expect some patients to fall >> through the cracks when it comes to including them in our data collection. >> Lots of work ahead! >> Good luck, I hope I was able to help. >> >> >> Jessica Harkey, RN, BSN, CCRN >> Sepsis Program Coordinator >> San Joaquin Community Hospital >> 2615 Chester Avenue >> Bakersfield, CA 93303 >> 661-869-6874 >> [email protected] >> >>> "Dr.Mohan Ranganathan" <[email protected]> 9/6/2012 6:23 AM >>> >> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Sepsisgroups mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org > _______________________________________________ > Sepsisgroups mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org
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