Yes. SEVERE SEPSIS plus the documentation of persistent hypotension and/or Lactate > 4 automatically = septic shock Provider documentation is only required if the criteria are NOT met.
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| [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 [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2017 6:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [**External**] [Sepsis Groups] question WARNING: This email originated outside of the Sutter Health email system! DO NOT CLICK links if the sender is unknown and never provide your User ID or Password. Hello group, I am being told by our quality department that if a patient is documented with severe sepsis and has a lactic acid greater than 4 that it is automatically coded as septic shock even though it's not documented. Is this true? Thanks, Debbie Chambless Sepsis Coordinator Osceola Regional Medical Center Kissimmee, Fl 34371 407-518-3949
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