The Quality Net Sepsis Specification Manual Version 5.1 (the abstractors manual) states the initial lactate is defined as "collection of an initial lactate level between 6 hours prior to and 3 hours following presentation of severe sepsis". This would mean your 1430 lactate is your initial lactate IF the definition of sepsis/severe sepsis is met. Sepsis is defined as "probable or documented infection together with systemic manifestations of infection" (Surviving Sepsis), so if you as the RN perform a sepsis screen you are indicating "probable...infection", your patient had a fever and elevated HR (2 SIRS) so you met the criteria for sepsis therefore your lactate drawn at 1430 would be your initial lactate and the value of 3.0 meets the criteria for severe sepsis at 1515. You don't have to wait on physician documentation. Also, if you want to speed things up lactates can be run on many point of care devices.
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Today's Topics: 1. Repeat Lactate (Claire Sirois-Melvin) 2. Re: Time Zero (Gibbs, Katie) 3. 30 cc's/kg (Pender.Linda) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 14:24:25 +0000 From: Claire Sirois-Melvin <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [Sepsis Groups] Repeat Lactate Message-ID: <by1pr0601mb15290477a6ae390e28abf291d7...@by1pr0601mb1529.namprd06.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello, We are having challenges at some of our facilities with meeting bundle compliance due to timing of repeat lactates. The issue is often that even though we are drawing more than 1 Lactate, the second lactate is actually becoming our "Initial Lactate" due to timing of Severe Sepsis. According to Technical Specifications, the "initial Lactate" is the one drawn closest to time 0. For example, Patient comes in with a cough, fever, and an elevated HR at 1420, MD orders lactate and Blood Culture which are drawn at 1430. Lactate results come back at 3.0 at 1515. MD orders fluids and antibiotics at 1530, but does not document infection until 1700 (? pneumonia in admission order.) Repeat Lactate ordered and drawn at 1830 with result of 2.2 ... In this scenario, the Severe Sepsis time zero is 1700. Based on abstraction guidelines, this makes the second Lactate at 1830 the "initial Lactate" since it is the one drawn closest to time 0. Providers do not order another lactate to be drawn until the next morning since the value is trending downward. This case fails due to no repeat Lactate within 6 hrs of SST zero. This is frustrating for providers since the care is appropriate, and just the timing of documentation throws off the timing of initial lactate. Is anyone having similar challenges or does anyone have a process/recommendation in place for such scenerios. Any information you can share would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance! Claire Claire Sirois-Melvin RN, BSN Quality Measure Resource Specialist - Steward Healthcare 824 Oak Street, Brockton, MA 02301 Email: [email protected] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Example: Patient was noted to have purulent drainage from the surgical wound on 01-10-20xx at 22:00, when the physician documented ?suspect surgical wound infection. A culture of the surgical site was obtained. At 01:30 on 01-11-20xx, blood pressure was noted to be 74/40. At 02:00, 30 minutes later, temperature was 38.4 and pulse was 118. Severe Sepsis Presentation Time is 02:00. ?Physician/APN/PA documentation of severe sepsis or suspected severe sepsis is acceptable. ?If a suspected infection, severe sepsis or septic shock is in an ED physician note without a specific time documented within the note use the time the note was started or opened. ?If severe sepsis is present on arrival to the Emergency Department or severe sepsis is identified in triage, the Severe Sepsis Presentation Time is the time the patient was triaged in the Emergency Department. If more than one triage time is documented (e.g., ?Triage started? and ?Triage completed?) use the later time reflecting triage is completed. ?For patients with multiple episodes of severe sepsis, abstract only the first episode. ?If there are multiple times documented when the last criterion to meet the definition of severe sepsis or physician/APN/PA documentation of severe sepsis occurred, and they are at variance with each other, use the earliest time. ?If criteria for severe sepsis are met after physician/APN/PA documentation of septic shock, enter the time the physician/APN/PA documented septic shock. ?If criteria for severe sepsis are not documented and there is not physician/APN/PA documentation of severe sepsis, but there is physician/APN/PA documentation of septic shock, enter the earliest time septic shock was documented Hope this helps! Katie Gibbs, RN, BSN Quality Improvement Specialist Witham Health Services PH 765-485-8459 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information in this e-mail, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and legally privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information in any manner is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. -----Original Message----- From: Sepsisgroups [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2016 5:51 PM To: Zhukov, Marina (Tacoma) Cc: Murray, Sandra; '[email protected]' Subject: Re: [Sepsis Groups] Time Zero Hello everyone, Just an fyi- At the UWMC we have a similar situation to what Marina has describe: We rarely hit all three criteria for severe sepsis when the patient walks in the ED door. The patient usually meets criteria later during the ED visit. Thanks, Mary L. 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Keep in > mind that patient needs to meet ALL criteria (infx, two SIRS and organ > dysfunction) during/before triage in order to use triage time. There is > always little something that shifts the clock so that triage time could not > be used. > > ? > > Also, with just added SEP-1 Additional Notes for Abstraction, Version > 5.1 there is new clarification: ?if the note (physician?s note) states severe > sepsis was present on admission, use the earliest documented admission > date/time? > > ? > > Marina Zhukov, RN, BSN > > Clinical Data Abstractor > > CHI Franciscan Health > > ? > > ? > > ? > > From: Sepsisgroups > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Madrid, Pamela A > Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2016 9:45 AM > To: Belfi, Karen; Dena Videtic; Murray, Sandra; > '[email protected]' > Subject: [Sepsis Groups] Time Zero > > ? > > CAUTION: This email is not from a CHI source. 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