Sepsis: implication for nursing

Sepsis is a serious health problem that is off worldwide interest; it is associated with a high mortality rate despite continuing improvements in infection management and the awareness of population is still poor despite its importance. Direct interventions to achieve the goal of clinician, like red...

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Published inItalian journal of medicine Vol. 10; no. 4; pp. 360 - 363
Main Authors Bertoncini, Fabio, Di Massimo, Dino Stefano, Gatta, Claudia
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published PAGEPress Publications 01.01.2016
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bundle
clinical competence
medical patient
nursing
Sepsis
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Summary:Sepsis is a serious health problem that is off worldwide interest; it is associated with a high mortality rate despite continuing improvements in infection management and the awareness of population is still poor despite its importance. Direct interventions to achieve the goal of clinician, like reduction of mortality, pass through the resuscitation and antibiotics but their effectiveness depends on the early recognition of symptoms and therefore the septic state. The nursing role is crucial both for the early recognition of the disease state, as well as to treat the patient with professionalism and promptness and to provide appropriate assistance to the kind of complexity that creates this pathological state: to achieve these aims, recommendations and bundles were developed to guide clinical nurses in septic patients’ care.
ISSN:1877-9344
1877-9352
DOI:10.4081/itjm.2016.801