What would you do?

[CCCSD]

My county EMS agency is looking at implementing a sepsis alert from the field. We already have some hospitals who have started it with some calling it a sepsis alert and others calling it a gold alert. With the entire countywide EMS system calling in sepsis alerts, the hospitals are all going to have to get on board as it will be a requirement for them to be listed as a paramedic receiving facility.

How are they going to handle the 8k SNF pts each day that are now “sepsis alerts”?

 

[ffemt8978]

pts

When I read SNF I interpreted it as Sepsis Nursing Facility

 

[DesertMedic66]

How are they going to handle the 8k SNF pts each day that are now “sepsis alerts”?

8k SNF patients are not being transported into the ED every single day in our entire county...
A sepsis response is does not take a huge amount of resources for the hospital. It more so starts a clock to make sure specific treatments are being completed in a timely manner to include fluids, vasopressors, labs, cultures, and antibiotics.

 

[CCCSD]

8k SNF patients are not being transported into the ED every single day in our entire county...
A sepsis response is does not take a huge amount of resources for the hospital. It more so starts a clock to make sure specific treatments are being completed in a timely manner to include fluids, vasopressors, labs, cultures, and antibiotics.

Did you at least duck when the B52 went over…

 

[Akulahawk]

A sepsis alert (in or out of hospital)...

more so starts a clock to make sure specific treatments are being completed in a timely manner to include fluids, vasopressors, labs, cultures, and antibiotics.

It also starts a clock as to determining if these interventions are necessary at all. Sepsis alerts are generally called based on certain vital signs criteria. So if one meets criteria by VS and has a likely source of infection, then calling a sepsis alert is a good idea. Then when we get labs back (which lab runs as a priority) we can adjust from there.