Sepsis Alert – a triage model that reduces time to antibiotics and length of hospital stay.

28 februari 2017

Rosenqvist M et al., OBJECTIVE: To study if a modified triage system at an Emergency Department (ED) combined with educational efforts resulted in reduced time to antibiotics and decreased length of hospital stay (LOS) for patients...

The impact of emergency department crowding on early interventions and mortality in patients with severe sepsis.

31 januari 2017

Gaiseski et al., OBJECTIVE: Critically ill patients require significant time and care coordination in the emergency department (ED). We hypothesized that ED crowding would delay time to intravenous fluids and antibiotics, decrease utilization of [...]