Hi there, I am a third year student Paramedic, studying at the University of Brighton. An assignment we have been given involves researching and suggesting an improvement our local ambulance service can make to improve patient care.
I recently attended a male suffering signs of severe sepsis. He had been getting progressively worse following an untreated chest infection and had been in the condition we found him for around 3 hours before his wife decided to call an Ambulance. We initiated a fluid challenge and took him to A&E under a blue light priority. Along with all our regular checks. My thoughts from this were, had paramedics been allowed to give broad spectrum antibiotics, would this have been of benefit to the patient at all as apposed to receiving these in hospital, considering his potential to deteriorate rapidly? Our transport time being 20-25 minutes. And would this have given the hospital more time to complete other tasks required for this patient, e.g blood cultures, imaging etc and enable him to get the care he needs as quickly as possible? I would be very grateful for your opinion on this and if you would have any suggestions or recommendations I could research into, on what more the Ambulance service can do for this group of patients? Kind Regards, Josie Gray Third year student Paramedic, University of Brighton. _______________________________________________ Sepsisgroups mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org
