Our lab norm goes up to 2.2. Any thing above that gets called. We had our sepsis team lead physician talk to lab about the importance of severe sepsis before it gets worse (4.0 or hypotension). Lab was concerned about too many extra calls but it's worked out fine
Sue Sent from my iPad > On Sep 10, 2016, at 3:10 PM, "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > CAUTION: This Email is from an EXTERNAL source. Ensure you trust this sender > before clicking on any links or attachments. > > > 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. Lactic Acid alerts from Lab (Pender.Linda) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 19:37:24 +0000 > From: Pender.Linda <[email protected]> > To: "'[email protected]'" > <[email protected]> > Subject: [Sepsis Groups] Lactic Acid alerts from Lab > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > What level of Lactic Acid does lab call to the Bedside nurse at your > Hospital? I am in great need of this information because our hospital lab > currently only calls for critical results which are > 4.0 mmol. We are > requesting lab to change their practice and call for all Lactic Acid levels > of > 2.0 mmol. > Please let me know what your hospital is doing so I can help guide my > hospital in the right direction. > Thanks, > > Linda G. Pender RRT-NPS > Sepsis Coordinator > Patient Care Services Administration > phone: 478-633-6806 pager: 4444 > KNOW Sepsis: Inside & Out > [MCCG...World Class Care! See our website...]<http://www.navicenthealth.org/> > Email: [email protected] > > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information transmitted in this e-mail message, > including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) > or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential, privileged, > and/or proprietary information. Any unauthorized review, retransmission, use, > disclosure, dissemination, or other use of, or taking any action in reliance > upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended > recipient is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, you are > hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, or > other use of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you > have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by > reply e-mail, or by calling (478) 633-7272, and destroy the original message, > attachments, and all copies thereof on all computers and in any other form. > Thank you. Navicent Health. http://www.navicenthealth.org/ > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/pipermail/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org/attachments/20160906/5fdee4e5/attachment.html> > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: image001.png > Type: image/png > Size: 9451 bytes > Desc: image001.png > URL: > <http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/pipermail/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org/attachments/20160906/5fdee4e5/attachment-0001.png> > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Sepsisgroups mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Sepsisgroups Digest, Vol 219, Issue 7 > ******************************************** _______________________________________________ Sepsisgroups mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org
