Infections put you and your family at risk for a life-threatening condition called sepsis. Sepsis happens when an infection you already have—in your skin, lungs, urinary tract or somewhere else—triggers a chain reaction throughout your body. Sepsis is life-threatening and without timely treatment, it can rapidly lead to tissue damage, organ failure and death.

The Early Identification of Sepsis Saves Lives resource describes the rapid progression of sepsis and why early identification and treatment is key to saving lives.

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.

Get Ahead of Sepsis is a national educational effort that emphasizes the importance of early recognition, timely treatment, reassessment of antibiotic needs, and prevention of infections. Here are sepsis fact sheets, infographics, posters, brochures and social media content from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website to find information on ways to prevent sepsis and how to respond if they do get sepsis.

Register to attend this replay of our Nursing Home Connect webinar at a special time this week: Tuesday, June 11, 2024, at 3:30–4:30 p.m. CT. The TMF QIN-QIO is bringing back Jillian Barthelemy, Certified Infection Control (CIC), and colleagues to replay our presentation about nursing home facility infection control procedures — including vaccinations — as a way to prevent sepsis and associated hospital readmissions.

Register to attend this Nursing Home Connect webinar on Thursday, June 20, 2024, at 1:30–2:30 p.m. CT. Did you know that having poor oral health could increase risk for developing pneumonia? Join the TMF QIN-QIO’s LaNeidra Williams and Betsy Beard, registered dental hygienists, to learn how proper oral care can protect residents from developing pneumonia and/or sepsis.

The Life After Sepsis Fact Sheet educates patients and survivors on what they need to know about the types of sepsis and recovering from sepsis. It also includes helpful links for more information beyond the fact sheet.

This is the PDF handout from the TMF QIN-QIO's recorded webinar about sepsis prevention and pneumonia.

The TMF QIN hosts weekly Nursing Home Connect webinars on Thursdays at 1:30 CT. Here are the topics for May 2024, which include a sepsis series. Register now.

Listen to this May 2, 2024, Nursing Home Connect webinar recording from the TMF Quality Innovation Network to learn how sepsis develops from a urinary tract infection. Listeners will also learn the symptoms of sepsis, risk factors for developing a sepsis infection and how to diagnosis and treat it, and most importantly, how to prevent a sepsis infection in the first place.

In this Nov. 15, 2022, recording, TMF QIN-QIO specialists discuss infection control procedures, including COVID-19 vaccinations, as a way to prevent sepsis.

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

Infection prevention is the only way to prevent sepsis. Fortunately, we can significantly reduce the risk of infection by using prevention measures such as regular hand washing and isolating ourselves if we are ill. Getting vaccines that target certain illnesses is another important way to reduce the risk of contracting infections.

Sepsis Alliance has a library of sepsis information guides that cover dozens of sepsis-related topics. Download the guides, which are available in a high-resolution format, to print and distribute to patients, families, co-workers, friends, and other professionals.

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 on identifying signs of infection and sepsis at home. This tool is in Spanish suitable for a Puerto Rican audience.

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