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Open Access
01-04-2014 | Poster presentation
Surviving Sepsis Campaign 2012 3-hour bundle in the emergency department: compliance and impact of pathway of care before and after implementation
Authors:
J Masse, A Filali, O Nigeon, N Van Grunderbeeck, P Gosselin, L Tronchon, J Mallat, D Thevenin
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 2/2014
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Excerpt
Compliance with the Surviving Sepsis Campaign 2012 (SSC) bundle in the emergency department (ED) is a key point to improve outcome of severe sepsis and septic shock [
1,
2]. Before and after education of ED staff, we registered compliance and timing of lactate dosing, blood culture sampling, empiric antibiotic therapy (ATB) and fluid resuscitation, the 3-hour (H3) bundle. Survival and compliance according to the initial pathway of care were also studied. …