Transport of Sepsis Patients

This was the first large multi-center study in a public health system evaluating the effect of EMS transport on the management and outcome of patients who were diagnosed with severe sepsis or septic shock in the ED. As expected, triage to emergency physician time, triage to admission time, triage to declaration time, and triage to bundle compliance time were all shorter for patients who arrived by EMS.
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news