1. Procalcitonin: is anyone using this in their sepsis protocol, as a routine lab with Sepsis patients or how is it being used in your facility overall; ABX stewardship...
2. If the provider or nurse is unable to obtain blood for initial or repeat lab work, lactate, etc..., secondary to shock, etc... are you abstracting the cases as meeting the measure or falling out of the measure. CMS SEP-1 notes for Abstraction- "if a lactate level is ordered and there is an attempt to collect it, but the attempt results in failure to collect the specimen (too dehydrated to get a vein) or the specimen was contaminated during or after the draw." Thanks in advance for your response Robert Hattabaugh MSN, RN, ACNS-BC, CMSRN Adult Health Clinical Nurse Specialist
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