PEWS can be useful as a sepsis screen or trigger in that it will or can identify fever with tachycardia, which then gets an MD assessment which will identify altered mental status, poor perfusion and then the Peds management flow chart begins with the recognition of sepsis with AMS/poor perfusion. Melissa
On Apr 30, 2013, at 11:28 AM, "Luginbuhl, Ryan S." <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > How is everyone handling peds? Is there anyone doing PEWS screening? Is this > adequate to cover peds sepsis? Thanks for your input and time as always. > > Ryan Luginbuhl RT(R), BS > Six Sigma Black Belt | Process Improvement > OSF Saint Francis Medical Center > 613 NE Jefferson Street | Peoria, IL | 61603 > www.osfsaintfrancis.org > > "Serving With the Greatest Care and Love" > > ==================== > The information in this message is confidential and may be legally > privileged. Access to this message by anyone other than the addressee is not > authorized. If you are not the intended recipient, or an agent of the > intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message > or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and > may be unlawful. If you have received this message in error, please contact > the sender immediately and permanently delete the original e-mail, > attachment(s), and any copies. > ==================== > > _______________________________________________ > Sepsisgroups mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org
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