Kissing Goodbye Sepsis at James Paget University Hospital

This article outlines a sepsis project at the James Paget University Hospital. The aim was to try to improve Sepsis outcomes at the Trust. They realised that that the key to succeed was to simplify and make it easy for frontline to identify Sepsis. They scrapped all paperwork and were left with just one simple tick box form that staff can complete in less than 30 seconds. They also empowered their specialist Nurses by launching a PGD for them to be able to administer first dose of antibiotics in special circumstances where the doctor is not available immediately. In 9 months the amount of patients given antibiotics inside the “golden hour” has gone from 63% to nearly 80% overall. The Trust is much better at identifying and treating Sepsis. As a result their length of stay for septic patients has been reduced dramatically.
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news