Sheree, We have a protocol that the ED initiates an ICU/Sepsis Alert. A team (critical care physician assistant and an ICU RN) goes down to the ED to assume care of the patient, notifies the intensivists, and moves the patient to an ICU bed when available.
Maureen A. Seckel, APN, ACNS-BC, CCNS, CCRN CNS Medical Pulmonary Critical Care Sepsis Coordinator Christiana Care Health System 4755 Ogletown-Stanton Road 3E29 Newark, DE 19718 Office 302 733-6023 [flame2] From: Sepsisgroups [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brown, Sheree Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 12:24 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: [Sepsis Groups] ED to ICU protocol We are developing a protocol for all of our severe sepsis patients with either hypotension or lactate >4 to go expeditiously to the ICU for initial resuscitation...similar to the way we get acute MIs on their way to the cath lab in a hurry. We are trying to reduce ED length of stay and urgent transfers to ICU within several hours of admission to non-ICU units. Does anyone have a similar protocol that you could share? or guidelines related to sepsis ICU admission criteria? Thanks, Sheree -- Sheree Brown MSN, RN, CNL Manager, Performance Excellence Phone: 517 788-4800 ext. 4209 Pager: 517 534-0127 Fax: 517 788-4715 [email protected]<allegiancehealth.org> [Description: email-signature-mcgaw] ________________________________ This e-mail message and any attachment(s) is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or proprietary in nature. Any unauthorized disclosure, copying or distribution of this e-mail or the content of this message is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please immediately notify the sender at the e-mail address above, permanently delete this e-mail and destroy any copies of this e-mail and attachments in your possession. This electronic message ("e-mail"), including the typed name of the sender, does not constitute an electronic signature unless there is a specific statement to the contrary included in this e-mail.
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