CDC’s Safe Healthcare Blog: A Healthcare Risk Manager Shares Her Advice after Personally Surviving Sepsis
On CDC’s Safe Healthcare Blog, Pamela L. Popp, sepsis survivor and healthcare risk manager, shares her advice on how to implement a sepsis initiative. While finding people who understand her sepsis experience, Pamela found a shared passion with other sepsis survivors and advocates to prevent sepsis.
Pamela shares her advice on how healthcare risk managers can bring more attention to this preventable, but deadly, condition.
Read Pamela’s story and additional perspectives on sepsis at http://blogs.cdc.gov/safehealthcare/category/sepsis/
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Sepsis – Across the Care Continuum
WebEx Opportunity: September 10, 2015 * 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. (CT)
Also, the Great Plains Quality Innovation Network is offering a WebEx tomorrow, September 10: Sepsis – Across the Care Continuum. The WebEx is from 2 – 3 p.m. (CT).
Sepsis happens, in hospitals, nursing homes and other settings. Understanding the fundamental principles of recognizing and treating sepsis is equally important across the continuum of care in hospitals, nursing homes, and EMS units. The presenter will discuss how to be appropriately prepared to manage the sepsis patient.
The presenter is Dr. Steven Q. Simpson, Professor of Medicine and Acting Director of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Kansas. For more information, visit our Web site.