Pathophysiology
This condition is the body's overwhelming and life threatening response to infection which can lead to organ failure, tissue damage and death
What is Sepsis?
High Risk Patients for sepsis
What are the very young, elderly, immunocompromised, or of Maori or Pacific ethnicity ?
Temperature, infection, mental decline, extremely ill
What is T.I.M.E, symptoms to watch for?
Early __________ is a key to discovering that a patient is septic.
What is assessment?
Decreased blood flow to organ tissue
What is the body’s response in Sepsis?
Pneumonia, UTI, invasive line infections
What are Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs)?
Vital signs indicating Sepsis
What is fever, tachycardia, elevated respiration rate, and hypotension?
Used to screen for sepsis
What is the Adult Sepsis Screening and Action Tool?
Often altered in patients with poor perfusion
What is LOC / Mental Status?
A primary measure for reducing the risk of transmitting infection among patients and health care personnel
What is Hand Hygiene?
If this is high or low, you want to think ‘could this be sepsis
What is temperature?
Scripted set of sepsis interventions
What is the Sepsis Six Actions?
This lab result would be useful to measure organ dysfunction
What is lactate?
Most common cause of Sepsis
What is Pneumonia?
Symptoms of sepsis that are not vital signs
What are confusion or disorientation, shortness of breath, shivering, clammy or sweaty skin?
The 3 main interventions once sepsis has been detected.
What is oxygenation, fluid resuscitation, and antibiotics?
Most common organ failure found in Sepsis
What is Kidney Failure?
Any Patient with one of these (devices) is at high risk for Sepsis
What is a Central Line and/or Foley catheter?
Difficulty sleeping, fatigue, lethargy, SOB, disabling joint or muscle pain, hair loss, skin rash, repeat infection, hallucination, depression, anxiety, memory loss and organ dysfunction.
What is Post Sepsis Syndrome?
The time frame in which the scripted sepsis interventions must be completed
What is 1 hour?