Sepsis alerts called in emergency department versus in the field via emergency medical services: do not forget that severity and in-hospital cofounders influence outcomes!

We read with great interest the paper published by Mixon et al. [1], who reported that sepsis alerts called in the field via emergency medical services (EMS) decrease time to antibiotics and increase the likelihood of antibiotic administration occurring within 60 min of arrival, when compared to sepsis alert called in the emergency department (ED), but don ’t affect strong outcomes including mortality, in hospital and intensive care unit length of stay.
Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Source Type: research