Sepsis

Pediatric intensivist Smitha Mathew, PICU fellow Katie Verdone and emergency physician Dan McCollum join Zac Hodges on this episode to discuss pediatric sepsis.

How do you effectively screen for sepsis and systematically evaluate septic children?

What are the initial steps to treat children diagnosed with sepsis and septic shock?

What do we we need to know from the Surviving Sepsis Campaign 2019 Pediatric Guidelines?

All this and more on this episode from the Department of Pediatrics at Augusta University

https://www.augusta.edu/mcg/pediatrics/residency/podcast.php 

Special thanks to Dr. Mary Lynn Sheram and Dr. Eric Ring for providing peer review for this episode.

References:

See the SCCM 2019 sepsis guidelines for more information:

https://journals.lww.com/pccmjournal/Fulltext/2020/02000/Surviving_Sepsis_Campaign_International_Guidelines.20.aspx

SCCM simplified sepsis algorithm https://www.sccm.org/getattachment/SurvivingSepsisCampaign/Guidelines/Pediatric-Patients/Initial-Resuscitation-Algorithm-for-Children.pdf?lang=en-US