Improving Pediatric Sepsis Outcomes



Date & Location
Wednesday, March 6, 2019, 12:00 AM - Saturday, May 8, 2021, 12:00 AM

Target Audience
Specialties - Allergy/Immunology, Anesthesia, Cardiology, Cardiovascular Surgery, Child Abuse Pediatrics, Community Pediatrics, Critical Care, Dentistry/OMF, Dermatology, Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, General Pediatrics, General Surgery, Genetics, Hematology/Oncology, Hospital Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Neonatology, Nephrology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Otolaryngology, Pathology, Plastic Surgery, Pulmonology & Sleep Medicine, Radiology, Rehabilitation Medicine, Rheumatology, Sports Medicine, Urology

Overview
This educational effort focuses on COA’s implementation of recognition and treatment bundles for  pediatric sepsis in the inpatient setting.

Objectives
Upon completion of educational activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Achieve a 75% rate of provider response to sepsis activation within suggested timeframes (per Red/Yellow protocols).
  2. Achieve 75% rate of sepsis order set utilization for patients with possible sepsis.
  3. Achieve 50% of patients agreed by the provider to have sepsis will have isotonic fluids initiated within 30 minutes of the sepsis “huddle.”
  4. Achieve 50% of patients (who are not already on antimicrobials) agreed by the provider to have sepsis will have parenteral antibiotics initiated within 60 minutes of the sepsis “huddle.”

Accreditation

Children's of Alabama designates this Enduring Material for a maximum of 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Children’s of Alabama is accredited by the Medical Association of the State of Alabama to provide continuing medical education for physicians.


Credits
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.50 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (0.50 hours)