BECKER'S HEALTHCARE ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

Sepsis risk is hardest to read when resources are thinnest

Sepsis asks emergency departments to do two things at once: find the high-risk patients quickly, and avoid dedicating treatment and resources to the patients who don’t need them.

Every unnecessary workup occupies a bed, a nurse and a budget line that another patient needs. Every delayed recognition pushes a patient further down a course that is more expensive and more dangerous to reverse. Most sepsis programs are calibrated for one of those errors, not both, and the gap shows up in quality metrics and in the cost per case.

In this webinar clinical and health system leaders who have put a host-response sepsis test to work in diverse ED settings will describe what changed. Chadd Kraus, DO, of Lehigh Valley Health Network moderates a conversation with emergency medicine, quality and critical care leaders from Froedtert Hospital, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System and Texas Health Denton on how they made test results actionable inside the workflows they already had.