Sepsis in emergency medicine toolkit

Recommendations

• Educate ED clinical staff on sepsis policies and procedures during the onboarding process and at least annually.
• Develop a mechanism to provide regular feedback to ED clinicians on sepsis patient outcomes.

Rationale

• Ongoing education helps reinforce the reminder to “think sepsis.”

Tools

• Sepsis Alliance nurses suspect sepsis educational video
• Staff sepsis education presentation
• Stanford Sicko Septris: An educational game about diagnosing and treating sepsis

Best practices

• Hospital-wide initiative aims to reduce septic shock mortality rate (Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital, Brockton)
• The importance of clinician education, buy-in and feedback in improving sepsis outcomes (Southcoast Health, Fall River, New Bedford and Wareham)
• Creating a decentralized sepsis education program (Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston)