What Is?
Labs and Stats
Pestilence
Peeps
Potpourri
100

SIRS Stand for

Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome

100

This lab would be useful to measure organ dysfunction

What is Lactate


100

Most common type of (organ) infection causing Sepsis

What is Lung Infection

100

In pediatric patients instead of hypotension, these perfusion criteria are utilized

What is Capillary refill > 3 seconds of <1 second

100

Any Patient with one of these (devices) is at high risk for Sepsis

What is a Central Line and/or Foley catheter

200

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

200

Number of people that die from Sepsis in the USA each year

100000

270000

500000

270,000

200

An infection more frequent in women, that frequently causes confusion

What is UTI

200

A condition in which blood clots form throughout the body, blocking small blood vessels

What is DIC

200

Most common organ failure found in Sepsis

What is Kidney Failure

300

MAP Goal for Sepsis

What is 65 - 70 mm Hg

300

Why does Lactic Acid elevate in Sepsis

Because of tissue hypoperfusion


300

Infection can occur any time in the pregnancy and post-partum periods, but the ________ following delivery is the period when the highest number of infections occur.

What is first 6 days

300

The preferred vasopressor for Septic Shock is

Norepinephrine

300

The risk of dying from Sepsis increases by ___ for every hour delay in treatment

What is 8%
400

Sepsis with persistent hypotension despite adequate fluid resuscitation, or a lactate 4 or higher 

What is Septic Shock

400

What causes DIC

Platelet Activating Factor causes platelet aggregation leading to system wide clots

400

This type of (organ) infection frequently leads to an increase in bilirubin

What is Cholangitis or Cholecystitis

400

Fluid resuscitation goal for Severe Sepsis/ Septic Shock

30 ml (NS/LR)/kg of actual body weight unless BMI is greater than 30kg/M2. When BMI is greater than 30 kg/M2 use ideal body weight.

400

Patients with severe sepsis have a high ongoing mortality after severe sepsis with only ____surviving five years.

40%

60%

80%

What is 60% 

500

A sepsis predictive analytics score of ___ or higher is predictive of sepsis in patients 18 and over

6

500

The type of acid-base abnormality you would expect to see in Sepsis

What is Metabolic Acidosis due to elevated levels of lactic acid

500

The only source of infection not treated with broad spectrum antibiotics

Clostridium Difficile Infection



Vancomycin is not a Broad Spectrum Antibiotic.

500

In Epic how can I determine what components of the Sepsis Predictive Analytics contributed to the Sepsis Score.

Hover over the Sepsis Score

500


What is Acral purpura in disseminated intravascular coagulation