So if you have a patient who has two criteria for sepsis (pulse 90 and RR 20) 
and an underlying infection such as a urinary track infection are we all saying 
that we going to draw lactate levels, blood cultures, and begin antibiotics 
with fluids. 
Don't you think this is overkill since we do not have confirmatory studies for 
sepsis. Using this screening criteria I would suspect every patient I have  in 
the office with an exacerbation of COPD related to a bacterial bronchitis would 
be "septic".

William E. Haik, M.D., F.C.C.P., C.D.I.P.
AHIMA Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer
Office: (850) 863-2110
Cell: (850) 803-5854
Fax: (850) 864-4438
 

> On Jun 5, 2014, at 4:59 PM, idiesca <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> No we do not include the antibiotics. 
> 
> Sincerely, 
> Carina RN BSN CCRN
> 
> 
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone
> 
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: [email protected] 
> Date:06/05/2014 3:07 PM (GMT-05:00) 
> To: [email protected] 
> Subject: Sepsisgroups Digest, Vol 112, Issue 4 
> 
> Send Sepsisgroups mailing list submissions to
>         [email protected]
> 
> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
>         
> http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org
> 
> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
>         [email protected]
> 
> You can reach the person managing the list at
>         [email protected]
> 
> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> than "Re: Contents of Sepsisgroups digest..."
> 
> 
> Today's Topics:
> 
>    1. IVF and Abx's during resuscitation (Hussey, Joann)
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 18:37:52 +0000
> From: "Hussey, Joann" <[email protected]>
> To: "[email protected]"
>         <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Sepsis Groups] IVF and Abx's during resuscitation
> Message-ID:
>         <[email protected]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> 
> Good afternoon,
> Can anyone tell me, during initial resuscitation, if  the amount of IV fluid 
> administered as an antibiotic piggyback be counted  toward the of 30 ml/kg 
> fluid challenge?
> 
> JoAnn Hussey, BSN, RN
> PI Coordinator
> Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
> Ext. 8210
> 
> 
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL: 
> <http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/pipermail/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org/attachments/20140604/868a178e/attachment.html>
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Subject: Digest Footer
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Sepsisgroups mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> End of Sepsisgroups Digest, Vol 112, Issue 4
> ********************************************
> _______________________________________________
> 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

Reply via email to