TY - JOUR
T1 - PA.41 A maternity focused sepsis tool
T2 - improving the recognition and management of sepsis in obstetric care
AU - Northridge, R
AU - Hawco, S
AU - Gierasik, L
AU - Knox, S
AU - Lynch, P.
N1 - © 2014, Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Sepsis is the leading cause of direct maternal mortality, resulting in 27 deaths in the UK between 2006 and 2008:(1) in 70% of these cases, CMACE identified substandard care.(1) The Surviving Sepsis campaign supports early recognition and treatment of sepsis, and improved survival by implementing six evidence based management steps in non-pregnant populations.(2) However, this is not widely used in obstetric care. We aimed to develop and implement a tool utilizing the physiological and biochemical parameters of pregnancy, whilst identifying the clinical features that should raise suspicion of sepsis in this vulnerable group of patients.
AB - Sepsis is the leading cause of direct maternal mortality, resulting in 27 deaths in the UK between 2006 and 2008:(1) in 70% of these cases, CMACE identified substandard care.(1) The Surviving Sepsis campaign supports early recognition and treatment of sepsis, and improved survival by implementing six evidence based management steps in non-pregnant populations.(2) However, this is not widely used in obstetric care. We aimed to develop and implement a tool utilizing the physiological and biochemical parameters of pregnancy, whilst identifying the clinical features that should raise suspicion of sepsis in this vulnerable group of patients.
U2 - 10.1136/archdischild-2014-306576.83
DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2014-306576.83
M3 - Article
C2 - 25021199
SN - 1359-2998
VL - 99
SP - A29-A30
JO - Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal edition
JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal edition
IS - S1
ER -
