| Details | This session is aimed at all out of hospital clinicians, GPs, Nurses, Pharmacists, Paramedics, Community Midwives and those providing urgent or unscheduled care.
It will provide an introduction to key facts about sepsis and outlines the size of the problem, common community presentations and key actions that influence outcomes.
Objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:
• Describe the differences between infection, sepsis and septic shock
• Recognise the scale and impact of sepsis within the UK
• Recall the frequency of community and hospital derived sepsis
• Identify key features that should alert the clinician to the possibility of sepsis in a patient with infection |
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