BUNDLE
DEFINITIONS
Vital Signs & Labs
Organ Failure
General Stats
100

IV, Labs, Antibiotics, Fluids, Oxygen, Huddle

What are Essentia Healths  "Six in Sixty"  Sepsis Interventions.

100

SIRS stands for

What is Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome?

100

Temperature < 36C and Respirations >20

What are two SIRS criteria?

100

Decreased blood flow to organ tissue

What is the body's response in sepsis?

100

1.7 million


What are the number of sepsis cases annually in the United States?

(CDC 9/2021)


200

Obtained before antibiotic administration

What are 2 sets of blood cultures?

(within 1st hour of treatment)

200

The body's extreme life-threatening response to an infection

What is Sepsis?

200
SIRS Criteria WBC COUNT 

What is > 12,000 or < 4,000?

200

Perfusion

What is the main problem in sepsis?

200

Population of 40% of sepsis cases

What are children under the age of 5?

300

Provider sepsis huddle to be completed in 

What is 15 minutes? 

300

A form of clinical decision support seen within the electronic health/medical record.

What is Best Practice Advisories, BPA?

300

Heart rate > 90 and altered level of consciousness 

What are two SIRS criteria?

300

Rapid control of infection and hemodynamic stabilization 

What are sepsis treatment goals to limit the development of organ failure?

300

Number of sepsis deaths per year in the United States

What is nearly 270,000?

(CDC 9/2021)

400

Rapid crystalloid administration total for lactate level > 4 or SBP <90

What is 30 ml/kg?

400

Condition in which blood pressure fails and the organs of the body fail to receive sufficient oxygen

What is septic shock?

400

Biomarkers associated with sepsis risk identification, early diagnosis and continued disease progression

What are CRP and Procalcitonin?
400

Burns, Trauma, Pancreatitis

What is SIRS with no evidence of infection?

400

Increases mortality from septic shock by 8%

What is every hour without appropriate sepsis treatment?

500

Repeated lab level q4h x3

What is lactic acid?

500

When lactic acid production exceeds lactic acid clearance caused by impaired tissue oxygenation

What is lactic acidosis?

500

Lactate >4

What is an indication of severe sepsis?

500

Fibrin clots lead to microvascular hypoperfusion, diminished oxygen delivery and tissue necrosis

What is septic shock?

500

62 Billion

What is the average annual cost of sepsis hospitalization in the United States?