Sepsis timer needs to die.

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This seemed interesting along these lines.


Also, I was at the IDWeek conference recently and IDSA and some good sepsis researchers are very strongly in your court trying to scrap or revamp these sepsis protocols. They’re just running into a brick wall so far but tryimg to come up with saner alternatives supported by solid data to suggest as a replacement.

Also, a group at Hopkins I belive and another company are making good headway on a better sepsis AI system that reduces false positives and doesn’t constantly alert physicians to bogus crap. It was a really interesting talk about all of the many many issues with EPICs AI and what they were doing differently. I’ll see if I can maybe dig that up.
 
On this side of the planet, we've inherited the Sepsis Six from the NHS. It's basically designed for unsupervised trainees, because the response to potential severe sepsis is basically "give antibiotics, give 500mL fluid, notify someone with a brain."

We don't have any alerts because (lol) you can't get alerts when all the clinical documentation is on paper.
 
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On this side of the planet, we've inherited the Sepsis Six from the NHS. It's basically designed for unsupervised trainees, because the response to potential severe sepsis is basically "give antibiotics, give 500mL fluid, notify someone with a brain."

We don't have any alerts because (lol) you can't get alerts when all the clinical documentation is on paper.

What are the "Sepsis Six"?
 
What are the "Sepsis Six"?
(1) VoSyn, the big gun
(2) abNORMAL SALINE (magically shape-shifts to a 30mL/kg volume vis-a-vis the villain they are battling)
(3) Serial Lacate, i.e. “death by a million sticks”
(4) Organ Dysfunction, or as the others call him, ‘minimally elevated creatinine of unclear significance’
(5) Captain Vitale, (VitalE, like Linguini). His cape appears tactically improbable.
(6) The Clipboard. The only scary one of the bunch. Ringleader. Wanted for crimes against humanity on 8 continents.
 

Yeah, I deserved that one.
Lol. Got me.

I thought maybe they were altogether different criteria which would (intuitively) require some degree of explanation; but really it comes down to the "Weingart LLS" score.