Sepsis update

With special guest Sam Antonios, MD, FACP, SFHM, CPE, CCDS, board certified internist and chief medical officer, medical director of information systems, utilization management medical director, physician advisor, and HIM committee chair for Via Christi in Wichita, Kansas, and co-host Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC, the CDI Education Director for ACDIS and developer and lead instructor for the ACDIS boot camp line.

To read the article Emergency Physicians Push Back Against Anthem ED Policy as featured on "In the News," please click here.

To view the article New Sepsis and Septic Shock Definitions: Clinical Implications and Controversies, referenced by Sam Antonios, please click here (purchase required to read full article).

To read the ACDIS White Paper Where Are We Now With Sepsis, authored by Sam Antonios, please click here.

Following are additional recommended readings on sepsis provided after the show by Antonios (note: some require registration and/or payment):

1. Rhee C, Dantes R, Epstein L, Murphy DJ, Seymour CW, Iwashyna TJ, Kadri SS, Angus DC, Danner RL, Fiore AE, Jernigan JA, Martin GS, Septimus E, Warren DK, Karcz A, Chan C, Menchaca JT, Wang R, Gruber S, Klompas M, for the CDC Prevention Epicenter Program. Incidence and Trends of Sepsis in US Hospitals Using Clinical vs Claims Data, 2009-2014. JAMA. 2017;318(13):1241–1249. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.13836.: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2654187
2. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0891552017300314?via%3Dihub
3. http://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/Abstract/2017/09000/The_Impact_of_the_Sepsis_3_Septic_Shock_Definition.2.aspx
4. http://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(17)32897-0/pdf (free online)
5. http://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/Citation/2017/09000/What_Is_the_National_Burden_of_Sepsis_in_U_S_.23.aspx