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A Matter of Life and Death: How States Are Tackling Sepsis as Public Policy

Anthony Fiore, MD, MPH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Chief of the Epidemiology Research and Innovations Branch, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, is featured in a new Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) Public Health Review podcast episode, A Matter of Life and Death: How States Are Tackling Sepsis as Public Policy.

International critical care nursing considerations and quality indicators for the 2017 surviving sepsis campaign guidelines

A letter to the editor published in Intensive Care Medicine describing the role of the nurse in sepsis care.

Surviving Sepsis Campaign Hour-1 Bundle Teaching Slides

The Surviving Sepsis Campaign Hour-1 Bundle Teaching Slides outline the process and details for implementing the Hour-1 Bundle.

Sepsis CALF Sheet: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

A tool from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. When sepsis is suspected, use this form to assure
completion of sepsis bundle interventions.

Perinatal Screening Tool​ - Dignity Health

Colleagues share the tools they have developed in their own institutions as they implement the Surviving Sepsis Campaign. The MATERNAL ASSESSMENT OF SEPSIS tool is from Dignity Health.

Sepsis Recognition and Treatment Protocols - Stony Brook

Colleagues share the tools they have developed in their own institutions as they implement the Surviving Sepsis Campaign. The Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock Recognition and Treatment Protocols are from Stony Brook Medicine.

Patient Units Severe Sepsis Screening Tool - Saint Joseph Mercy Health System

Colleagues share the tools they have developed in their own institutions as they implement the Surviving Sepsis Campaign. The Patient Units Severe Sepsis Screening Tool is from  Saint Joseph Mercy Health System.

ICU Severe Sepsis Screening Tool - Saint Joseph Mercy Health System

Colleagues share the tools they have developed in their own institutions as they implement the Surviving Sepsis Campaign. The ICU Severe Sepsis Screening Tool is from  Saint Joseph Mercy Health System.

Pediatric Sepsis Alert Checklist - Wesley Healthcare

Colleagues share the tools they have developed in their own institutions as they implement the Surviving Sepsis Campaign. The Sepsis Alert Checklist is from Wesley Healthcare.

Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock Clinical Pathway - Cookeville Regional Medical Center

Colleagues share the tools they have developed in their own institutions as they implement the Surviving Sepsis Campaign. The SEVERE SEPSIS/SEPTIC SHOCK CLINICAL PATHWAY is from Cookeville Regional Medical Center.

Adult Treat Before Transfer Sepsis Screening Tool - Wesley Healthcare

Colleagues share the tools they have developed in their own institutions as they implement the Surviving Sepsis Campaign. The Sepsis Screening Tool and Clinical Pathway is from Wesley Children's Hospital.

Pediatric Treat Before Transfer Sepsis Screening Tool

Colleagues share the tools they have developed in their own institutions as they implement the Surviving Sepsis Campaign. These Transferring Facility Sepsis Recommendations are from Wesley Children's Hospital.

Administrative Buy-In: Key to Sepsis Care Improvement

Sean R. Townsend, MD, provides information on how to gain support from administrators for the resources needed to implement the SSC care bundles. Upon completion of this webcast, participants should be able to provide compelling information about the burden of sepsis on healthcare, describe how the implementation of care bundles improves clinical care, and extrapolate data from the literature and apply findings to improve sepsis care.

Conquering Sepsis Mortality: Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

Christa A. Schorr, RN, MSN, FCCM, discusses how to create an effective teamwork experience, and how to apply these principles to a sepsis performance improvement program. Upon completion of this webcast participants will be able to describe characteristics of a successful teamwork experience, identify problems associated with organizing and managing teamwork, apply principles of teamwork to establish a sepsis performance improvement program and develop methods to evaluate process and goal achievement.

Sepsis in Maternal Healthcare Settings

Brenda Downs, MSN, RN, ACNS-BC, and Jeanne Sheffield, MD, present an overview of the considerations unique to sepsis in labor and delivery.

Septic Shock Case Study: Acute Management of the Morbidly Obese Patient

Morbidly obese patients have unique needs in the emergency department and ICU. When that patient has septic shock, special considerations are required to ensure that the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines are implemented in a timely and effective manner.  Learn how to ensure that you and your team adjust your thinking and actions appropriately to ensure such patients get the best care. Tiffany Osborn, MD, MPH, presents a case study in which she offers insight into best practices for treating the morbidly obese patient with septic shock.

Advances in Sepsis: Protecting Patients Throughout the Lifespan

Leading sepsis experts discuss the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) recent sepsis Vital Signs and protocols for early recognition of maternal sepsis. This webinar discusses sepsis in acute care settings, septic shock guidelines for pediatrics, as well as sepsis in post-acute and long-term care settings.
 

Empowering Nurses for Early Sepsis Recognition

Leading sepsis experts discuss the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) recent sepsis Vital Signs and protocols for early recognition of maternal sepsis. This webinar features an overview of CDC's sepsis Vital Signs report, a discussion on expanding sepsis early recognition, an overview of a pilot of sepsis early recognition, and lessons learned from implementing sepsis screening on hospital wards.

Sepsis Standard Work: Improving Compliance with Early Recognition and Management of Perinatal Sepsis

Leading sepsis experts discuss the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) recent sepsis Vital Signs and protocols for early recognition of maternal sepsis. This webinar was hosted by the CDC in partnership with the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the American Nurses Association, and the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric & Neonatal Nurses.

Spreading Quality Just in Time: Human Resources

Jane Taylor, EdD, discusses resourcing spread projects with people power. She highlights how to recruit curious and smart team members internally and externally to support success.

Spreading Quality Just in Time: Measurement and Data Reporting

Jane Taylor, EdD, discusses setting the norm for improvement by using measurement and data reporting. This creates a shared language and challenges team thinking.

Spreading Quality Just in Time: Developing Learning Networks

Jane Taylor, EdD, provides insight on how to develop learning networks and how to plan for spread.

Spreading Quality Just in Time: Communication

Spreading Quality Just in Time: Scaling Up and Spreading Change

Spreading Quality Just in Time: IHI’s Will, Ideas & Execution

Jane Taylor, EdD, discusses the Institute of Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) concepts of will, ideas and execution as a framework for spread of change. She discusses lessons learned from Project Fives Alive!, an IHI quality improvement initiative that seeks to develop, test, and implement strategies to overcome systems failures that lead to preventable deaths in children less than five years of age in Ghana.

Spreading Quality Just in Time: Leadership for Spread

Jane Taylor, EdD, explores the required leadership to spread improvement projects once tested and validated. Specific focus is placed on the Sepsis on the Wards project from the Society of Critical Care Medicine's Surviving Sepsis Campaign/Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

Spreading Quality Just in Time: Spreading a Change  

Jane Taylor, EdD, provides information on how to tell if change is ready to spread and how to evaluate the spread.

Early Identification of Sepsis: The Journey Since the Sepsis on the Wards Collaborative

This article was first published in the August 2019 issue of Critical Connections. AdventHealth Shawnee Mission in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, USA, had a unique opportunity to impact the care provided to patients with sepsis in partnership with the Surviving Sepsis Campaign’s (SSC) Sepsis on the Wards Collaborative. Three years later, building on this foundation, processes are still being streamlined to improve the care of this challenging population.

SCCM Pod-213 Implementing the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines

Jeffrey Guy, MD, MSc, MMHC, speaks with Christa A. Schorr, RN, MSN, FCCM, about implementing the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) guidelines.

SCCM Pod-227 Highlights from the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines

Jeffrey Guy, MD, MSc, MMHC, speaks with R. Phillip Dellinger, MD, MCCM, co-chair of the updated Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines.

SCCM Pod-326 Surviving Sepsis Campaign: Creating Spread for Quality Improvement

Ludwig Lin, MD, speaks with Jane Taylor, Ed.D, about quality improvement science and her contributions to the Surviving Sepsis Campaign.

SCCM Pod-336 Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines: 2016 Update

Ludwig Lin, MD, speaks with Mitchell M. Levy, MD, MCCM, about the release of the “Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016,” presented at the 46th Critical Care Congress in Honolulu, Hawaii.