Sepsis in emergency medicine toolkit

Recommendation

• Create a multi-disciplinary team to assess current emergency department practices, identify opportunities for improvement and set goals.

Rationale

• Assessing current practice is a prerequisite to identifying areas for improvement.
• A multidisciplinary team is valuable in gathering buy-in for quality improvement goals as well as for overall implementation.

Tools

• Assessment of current practice aurvey
• Skill gap assessments for ED physicians
• Skill gap assessments for ED nurses
• Setting goals
• Team planning worksheets

Best practices

• Using a Kaizen event to kick-off your sepsis care improvement journey (Southcoast Health, New Bedford)