| Details | This session covers non pregnant adults and children aged 12 years and over.
It is aimed at all out of hospital clinicians, GPs, Nurses, Paramedics, Community Midwives and those providing urgent or unscheduled care.
It will cover the subtle ways in which sepsis may present and highlight the history, examination and the management of the patient with sepsis. NEWS has been used for this session and will shortly be updated to be aligned with NEWS2.
By the end of this session you will be able to:
• Describe various ways patients with sepsis may present and what to cover in the history
• List the structured set of observations to support clinical decision making and to help stratify risk
• Recall common pitfalls in diagnosis
• Identify which patients with sepsis are highest priority for urgent admission and know about the early management of the patient with sepsis |
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