VBG with lactate is a great way to improve TAT (turn around time) for lactate results - using the lactate module on a blood gas machine for instance . Just be sure to not use the venous O2 sat as a parameter unless the draw is from a CV access
Thanks, MARY ANN BARNES-DALY RN BSN CCRN DC | Clinical Performance Improvement Consultant Sutter Health - Office of Patient Experience | 2200 River Plaza Drive, Sacramento, CA 95833 Mobile 916.200.5604| Office 916.286.6717 | [email protected] "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." ~R. Buckminster Fuller From: Sepsisgroups [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rutherford, Richard Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2015 8:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Sepsis Groups] VBG for screening Hello all, My hospital is considering expanding our sepsis screening so that a VBG+Lactate is checked for every patient with a positive sepsis screen (instead of lactate alone). Have any other hospitals done this? Does anyone have a second set of criteria for sicker patients for whom VBG is ordered? Thanks, Richard Rutherford, M.D. Quality Medical Director, Ventura County Medical Center 3291 Loma Vista Road, Ventura, CA 93003 (805) 665-8234 (cell) (805) 652-6096 (office)
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