Sim-sepsis: improving sepsis treatment in the emergency department?

• Published in: BMJ simulation & technology enhanced learning Vol. 5; no. 4; pp. 232 - 233
• Main Authors: Hunter, Jeremy G, Pritchett, Christopher, Pandya, Dhruti, Cripps, Alex, Langford, Roger
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BMJ Publishing Group LTD 01-10-2019; BMJ Publishing Group
• Subjects: Antibiotics; Clinical outcomes; Compliance; In Practice Reports; Intervention; Knowledge; Patients; Performance evaluation; Physicians; Seminars; Sepsis; Simulation; simulation training; sepsis; education
• ISSN: 2056-6697; 2056-6697
• DOI: 10.1136/bmjstel-2018-000307

To assess changes in behaviour following intervention, we compared times to delivery of each element of the sepsis 61 (table 1) by attending physician participants for 2 weeks preceding and succeeding the SBE.Table 1 Sepsis 6 resuscitation bundle Give targeted high-flow oxygen Take blood cultures Commence intravenous fluid resuscitation Measure serum lactate Give intravenous antibiotics Monitor urine output Kirkpatrick’s learning evaluation model was used to measure the educational validity of these sessions. [...]the importance the SBE played over and above the didactic teaching was not analysed. [...]the prospective observational design of this study meant no control group was identified to standardise the complexity of sepsis cases, availability of resources such as antibiotics and staffing ratios pre and post intervention.