Sun, 30 April 2017
If you sit on a patient long enough, infection has a greater chance of taking hold and progressing to sepsis, or may receive a patient who has already been sick for days. Doc Jaybon walks us through the full spectrum from infection and SIRS to sepsis, shock and death. But what if you are your own next echelon? Point of injury to Role 1+ could be your own team house or single litter aid station. Go down the checklist on the right side of the PFC trending chart and make sure you are taking care of anything that could result in an infection. Have you given those antibiotics? How is your airway and respiratory care? Did you replace any dirty IV or IO sites you placed in the field? Are you doing all your procedures an as aseptic manner as much as possible? When will you debride? Are you doing everything you can to prevent pressure ulcers? When will you call for a telemedical consult? When your patient develops a fever? Blood pressure falling? Altered mental status? Listen in...
Direct download: Sepsis_in_the_Austere_Environment_Final.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:30am EDT
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