Emergency department sepsis huddles: Achieving excellence for sepsis benchmarks in New York State

The sepsis order set at our institution was created with the intent to facilitate the prompt initiation of appropriate sepsis care. Once clinical features meeting criteria for systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) are identified and an infectious source is considered, a “sepsis huddle” is concomitantly initiated. The sepsis huddle was implemented in March of 2016 in order to increase compliance with the sepsis bundles. The sepsis huddle is called via overhead paging system in the emergency department (ED) to notify all staff that there is a patient present who meets SIRS criteria with concern for sepsis requiring immediate attention.

Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - February 7, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Danielle Walsh, Robert Gekle, Robert Bramante, Eric Decena, Christopher Raio, David Levy Source Type: research