Sepsis Clinical Guide for Pc

1. Lack of appropriate sepsis management knowledge at the bedside leads to delayed symptom recognition, serious complications, medical errors, increased treatment costs, and avoidable morbidity and mortality.

2. In 2017, over 2 million people were admitted to US hospitals for sepsis (#1 cause of index admissions) at a total aggregate cost to the US healthcare system of $38.2 billion dollars (#1 most expensive condition), according to an AHRQ report.

3. Despite its large toll on public health, public awareness of this condition is poor and the quality of treatment is highly variable often due to delayed recognition and treatment.

4. For this reason, we created this app to provide busy health professionals with essential management information based on the latest practice guidelines in a format that is easily accessible at the point of care.

5. Sepsis is a serious systemic infection that can quickly lead to circulatory shock, organ failure and death if inappropriately treated.

6. The Sepsis app was developed on the ESCAVO mobile publishing platform created specifically for mobile publishing of scientific content.

7. Successful treatment hinges on prompt recognition of symptoms, correct antibiotic administration, and hemodynamic stabilization.

8. Over 270,000 people die of sepsis in the US every year, more than from prostate cancer, breast cancer and AIDS combined.

9. The platform features an intuitive user interface, search, annotation and bookmarking functions, and calculator support.

10. In sepsis, time is of the essence.

11. It is also a serious problem in hospitals throughout the US and the world.

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