Sepsis and septic shock is one of the things we are supposed to be trained to recognize in EMS but there has never been an EMS-accessible set of assessments that could be used in the prehospital setting. A recent research article on Sepsis in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) talks about redefining the criteria for alerting when a patient has suspected sepsis.

The formerly used SIRS criteria which stands for systemic inflammatory response syndrome has been replace by the SOFA assessment. That stands for systemic organ failure assessment. The good news for EMS is that there was a defined quick SOFA, or qSOFA, which could be used by EMS. At EMS Today in Baltimore, while shooting interviews in the Physio-Control booth, I chatted with EMS Educator Kevin Collopy about the new Sepsis guidelines and what they might mean for EMS and critical care transport. Check it out.

Links:

Society for Critical Care Medicine site

Sepsis.org the Sepsis Alliance

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This interview was recorded thanks to the ongoing support for programs like this from Physio-Control, Inc.

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