Hi Mary Ann, This tool looks great. Are you also using it for inpatients when they are being discharged home after being admitted for sepsis?
Pat Posa Pat Posa RN, BSN, MSA, FAAN Quality Excellence Leader Population Health Clinical Integration Leader Saint Joseph Mercy Health System *tel: *734-712-3604 *fax:* 734-712-2844 *cell:* 248-890-0044 *email:* [email protected] <https://owa.trinity-health.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=1Mai7UFSxUi1hh7UkFAu5yUU3Ek9B9QIYESlXZsm5ta2CqpnTjAxn6M9SrFZR4hjgIEHg1viqN4.&URL=mailto%3apatricia.posa%40stjoeshealth.org> On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Barnes-Daly, Mary Ann < [email protected]> wrote: > Lori; > > > > Great question. I would like to share a tool that Sutter Health is > beginning to include for patients who are being discharged with infection > or sepsis, either from the ED or the inpatient setting. > > > > > > *Thanks, * > > > > *MARY ANN BARNES-DALY **MS RN CCRN DC* | *Clinical Performance > Improvement Consultant* > > *Quality & Clinical Effectiveness Team **|* *Office of Patient Experience* > > *Sutter Health -**2200 River Plaza Drive, Sacramento, CA 95833* > > Mobile 916.200.5604*|* Office 916.286.6717 *| [email protected] > <[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 *Lori Harmon > *Sent:* Sunday, October 23, 2016 7:05 AM > *To:* Jeanie Bollinger <[email protected]>; sepsisgroups@lists. > sepsisgroups.org > *Subject:* [External] Re: [Sepsis Groups] ED Sepsis Screenings > > > > Jeanie, > > > > If there is a 20% positive patient discharge rate, is there a mechanism in > place in the ED to assure that potential sepsis patients and their families > or surrogates receive instructions, pamphlets, or other signs and symptoms > to watch for information? Triggers for a return visit to the ED or their > doctor? I have noted more institutions are doing this in the ED but also > upon discharge from inpatient wards if they are at risk for infection. > > > > Thank you! > > > Lori > > Lori A. Harmon, RRT, MBA > > Director Quality > > Society of Critical Care Medicine > > 500 Midway Drive > > Mount Prospect, IL 60056 > > +1-847-493-6403 > > > > > > > > *From:* Sepsisgroups [mailto:[email protected] > <[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Jeanie > Bollinger > *Sent:* Thursday, October 20, 2016 12:27 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [Sepsis Groups] ED Sepsis Screenings > > > > We are now doing electronic sepsis screenings on our ED patients with > automatic labs, including blood cultures, on patients that screen positive. > I wanted to know if anyone could share their data on what percent of > patients that screened positive for sepsis actually went home and were not > admitted. We are finding that about 20% of our population that screened > positive for sepsis are going home. Are screening parameters are : > Suspect infection “Yes” with 2 of the following: Alt LOC, Temp <96.5, Temp > >100.4, HR >95, SBP <100, MAP <65, RR >22. > > > > Jeanie Bollinger MSN,RN,ACCNS-AG, CCRN > > Clinical Nurse Specialist > > Acute Medicine > > Mission Health > > Asheville, NC > > > > *Phone:828-213-7171 <828-213-7171>* > > > ------------------------------ > > *This message and its attachments may contain confidential and/or > legally-sensitive information that is intended for the sole use of the > addressee(s). Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution of > the information contained in this message and its attachments is > prohibited. If you have received this message or any of its attachments in > error, please destroy all originals and copies of the same and notify the > sender immediately.* > > _______________________________________________ > Sepsisgroups mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org > > -- Pat Posa RN, BSN, MSA, FAAN Quality Excellence Leader St. Joseph Mercy Health System Ann Arbor, MI cell:248.890.0044 Office: 734.712.3604
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