Resources for Sepsis

Download these fact sheets to help educate your staff, colleagues, patients and caregivers on the threat of antibiotic resistance and how to slow its spread.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sepsis page includes basic information, patient resources, clinical guidelines and tools, data reports, videos and more.

Common infections can sometimes lead to sepsis. This poster provides information on identifying signs of infection and sepsis at home.

This webinar features Alis' Walton, BSN, RN, sepsis coordinator with Plaza Medical Center of Fort Worth, discussing how they saved lives with early identification and treatment of sepsis.

In this session of the Feb. 21 Texas and Oklahoma virtual meeting, Marlene Kennard, MA, RRT, CPHQ, discussed early identification and treatment of sepsis.

What are the symptoms of sepsis and what identification and management strategies should health care settings use to treat this condition? Attend this session to hear from Steven Q. Simpson, MD, FCCP, FACP, professor of Medicine, interim director, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Kansas, to learn the best practices your organization should follow.

The Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) resource gives an explanation of what SIRS is and provides definitions of sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock.

This foundation was created by the parents of Rory Staunton, who was 12 when he died of sepsis following a scrape on the elbow while playing basketball. With the goal of reducing sepsis-related deaths, particularly in children, the foundation provides education and outreach that focuses on faster diagnosis and effective treatment of sepsis.

These guidelines were updated by a consensus committee of 55 international experts in sepsis has updated recommendations to help guide clinicians caring for adult patients with sepsis and septic shock.

Common infections can sometimes lead to sepsis. This poster provides information in Spanish for Puerto Rico on identifying signs of infection and sepsis.

Common infections can sometimes lead to sepsis. This poster provides information in U.S. Spanish on identifying signs of infection and sepsis.