Lecture Summary

In 2017 The World Health Assembly urged member states to include the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of sepsis in strengthening national health systems in the community and in health care settings. In response and following lobbying and advocacy from Sepsis Australia (formerly the Australian Sepsis Network), a national coordinated strategy has been instituted by the Australian Commission for Safety and Quality in Healthcare in partnership with The George Institute for Global Health (Australia). A key component of this strategy has been the release of a national clinical care standard for sepsis which contains a series of high-level quality statements articulating what the community should expect from the health system, the responsibilities of clinicians to deliver on those expectations and the responsibility of healthcare organisations to provide the human and physical resources necessary for clinicians to practice best sepsis care. The sepsis clinical care standard covers improving awareness of sepsis among healthcare workers and in the general community, recognising sepsis as a time critical medical emergency that requires coordinated care across the healthcare system, recognises the critical role of patients and families in optimising sepsis outcomes and the importance of post sepsis care. Importantly the standard calls for all healthcare facilities that treat patients with Sepsis to have a designated sepsis coordinator who will ensure that patients with Sepsis receive coordinated care from the time of presentation.

Target Audience

Emergency Medicine Doctors
Emergency Medicine Nurses
Paramedics
Rural GP's

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, you should be able to:

• Describe the burden of sepsis
• Understand that suboptimal care is common even in well-resourced healthcare systems
• Appreciate that lack of coordinated care during transitions between departments (ED, ICU etc) contributes to poor outcomes
• Describe the positive impacts of coordinated national sepsis strategys on reducing preventable death and disability

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