Sepsis Clinical Pathway — Emergency Department, Inpatient and PICU

Epic Sepsis Alert

The sepsis BPA is an automated system built into epic to monitor patients who may become septic. The sepsis BPA will fire on your patient if two out of the three following criteria are met: fever or hypothermia, hypotension, or a sustained change in respiratory rate. When the sepsis BPA fires, document additional neuro and capillary refill assessments within the sepsis navigator. If a huddle is recommended, alert the critical care team via the nurse call system. Complete the sepsis huddle documentation located within the sepsis navigator.

If the BPA recommends a huddle, use the Sepsis Alert button on the nurse call system to alert the critical care team to huddle at bedside. A text page will be sent to their phones to alert them to come to bedside. The huddle should include at minimum the critical care fellow or NP, charge nurse, and bedside nurse. Fill out the huddle section with the team to determine the best plan of care for the patient. Once the team huddles, deselect the button on the wall to stop the alerts.

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The clinical pathways are based upon publicly available medical evidence and/or a consensus of medical practitioners at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (“CHOP”) and are current at the time of publication. These clinical pathways are intended to be a guide for practitioners and may need to be adapted for each specific patient based on the practitioner’s professional judgment, consideration of any unique circumstances, the needs of each patient and their family, and/or the availability of various resources at the health care institution where the patient is located.

Accordingly, these clinical pathways are not intended to constitute medical advice or treatment, or to create a doctor-patient relationship between/among The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (“CHOP”), its physicians and the individual patients in question. CHOP does not represent or warrant that the clinical pathways are in every respect accurate or complete, or that one or more of them apply to a particular patient or medical condition. CHOP is not responsible for any errors or omissions in the clinical pathways, or for any outcomes a patient might experience where a clinician consulted one or more such pathways in connection with providing care for that patient.

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