Flu kills more people per year than MVCs, so warrant labs and lactate. Elevated lactate regardless of cause associated with increased mortality. Karin
Sent from my iPhone On Dec 13, 2012, at 6:28 AM, Sue Beswick <[email protected]> wrote: > There are some concerns that we will be doing extra/unnecessary testing > (blood culture, Lactate, etc) with all of the flu patients who have a temp > and increased heart rate during the flu season. > > Do any of your facilities, modify your sepsis screen in ED for flu? Do you > look at the known or suspected infection and say probable flu so does not > meet sepsis screen? > > Thanks > Sue > > Sue Beswick RN, MS, CCNS, CCRN > Clinical Nurse Specialist - MSICU > Greenville Hosptial System > University Medical Center > Greenville, SC > Office: 864-455-4884 > > AACN Theme "Dare To" What are you going to dare to do this year? > > _______________________________________________ > Sepsisgroups mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org
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