(2:00 – 3:00 PM Eastern Time)
Featuring:
John D’Angelo, MD, FACEP, Vice President, Emergency Medicine, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health SystemMartin E. Doerfler, MD, Vice President, Evidence Based Clinical Practice, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
Darlene Parmentier, RN, MSN, MBA, Assistant Director of Critial Care and Telemetry, Glen Cove Hospital, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
Andrea Kabcenell, RN, MPH, Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Diane Jacobsen, MPH, CPHQ, Director, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Developing an infection can be complicated enough, but when the body's immune system reacts by going into overdrive in the form of sepsis, every second counts. The diagnosis needs to be swift and, if sepsis is confirmed, interventions in the form of fluids and antibiotics must be administered immediately. Because the global death rate from sepsis remains painfully high — tens of millions each year — stepped-up efforts to reduce mortality have been underway on a global scale for at least the past decade. We’ll devote an hour to this critical issue on the January 24 WIHI, A Partnership to Reduce Deaths from Sepsis.
There is progress to report on multiple continents where many health care organizations have been working hard on sepsis, often as part of international initiatives such as the Surviving Sepsis Campaign and in concert with professional societies such as the Society of Critical Care Medicine. In the US, where 25 percent of the 750,000 people who develop sepsis each year die, North Shore–Long Island Jewish Health System has reduced its sepsis mortality rate significantly. North Shore–LIJ is now in the midst of a strategic partnership with IHI to maintain and further these gains, and key learning has begun to emerge.
We’ll explore the progress on reducing deaths from sepsis on the January 24 WIHI with three clinical leads from North Shore–LIJ and two improvement leaders from IHI. Early detection and intervention are key, but in order to execute best practices reliably, changing the culture and engaging the leadership of the organization have proven essential. At North Shore–LIJ, focusing on the emergency department has also been foundational to testing best practices and spreading them to the rest of the hospital system.
WIHI Host Madge Kaplan invites you to a very important discussion about a critical problem that everyone in acute care needs to be aware of and working on. Patients and families are getting engaged too. Bring your progress and best practices, and get ready to ask lots of questions, on the January 24th WIHI.
Please click here to enroll.
About WIHI
WIHI is an exciting "talk show" program from IHI, connecting you to the cutting edge of health care improvement. It’s free, it’s timely, and it’s designed to help dedicated legions of health care improvers worldwide keep up with some of the freshest and most robust thinking and strategies for improving patient care. A 60-minute program is offered live every other week, or you can listen to recordings of the broadcast later at your convenience. WIHI is your opportunity to meet up with colleagues who want to improve patient care and shape a true health reform agenda.
