Implementation Science

Getting Better: How Hospitals Can Improve Their Sepsis Outcomes

Concurrent Session Moderator(s)

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  Leonard Stallings, MD

  Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology - Critical Care Medicine
  n/a
  Winston Salem, North Carolina

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.

Since the advent of the original early goal-directed therapy (EGDT) trial in 2001, health systems have made gradual improvements in the care of patients with sepsis and septic shock. Although the individual components of the original EGDT protocol may have waned in importance in the two decades since its original publication, the more important concept of an integrated bundled approach to early sepsis recognition and care remains important and influential. In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, many quality improvement initiatives are being reevaluated, including sepsis-focused efforts. This session will review key components of sepsis care bundles, weigh the relative benefit of their components, and discuss ways that health systems can improve outcomes in patients under their care.

Presentations:

• Making Choices: What Are the Core Elements of Sepsis Quality?
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Steven Q. Simpson, MD – The University of Kansas Health System
• The Hardest Step: How Can We Better Identify Sepsis?
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Stephanie Parks Taylor, MD, (she/her/hers) – Wake Forest School of Medicine
• On the Clock: How Can We Improve Time-to-Antibiotics in Sepsis?
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Kirstin Kooda, BCCCP, BCPS, PharmD – Mayo Clinic Rochester
• Under Pressure: How to Optimize Hemodynamic Resuscitation
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Ivor Douglas, MD, FRCP (UK) – Denver Health