NEW SEPSIS MEASURES and Applications for Improving Outcome
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have issued new benchmarks for the care of severe sepsis and septic shock for all U.S. hospitals. This webinar focuses on these new measures and achieving compliance with the goal of improving patient outcome.
This activity is accredited for physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and laboratorians (see CME Assessment for post-test). The webinar will
be available on-demand after the live portion with downloads of the transcript and educational slides posted (see Downloads). There is no charge for this activity.
FACULTY
AGENDA (All times are ET)
Tuesday, February 7, 2017 from 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
1:00 to 1:05Welcome and Webinar Instructions
Rick Import, Whitehat Communications
1:05 to 1:20Progress in Reducing Morbidity and Mortality in Sepsis
Mitchell M. Levy, MD, MCCM, FCCP
1:20 to 1:30The Role of the Laboratory in Improving Sepsis Care
Shu-Ling Fan, PhD, DABCC, FACB
1:30 to 1:40Improving Sepsis Care at the Point-of-Care
Patti DeJuilio, MS, RRT-ACCS, RRT-NPS and
Alexander Johnson, MSN, RN, ACNP-BC, CCNS, CCRN
1:40 to 1:45Panel Discussion
1:45 to 2:00Q & A
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1.Identify the new CMS measures for sepsis and additional applications for one’s own institution
2.Assess new findings with the implementation of sepsis bundles and new standards of care
3.Discuss best practices for sepsis care including point-of-care lactate testing
ACCREDITATION
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through ScientiaCME. ScientiaCME is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
ScientiaCME designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This program is approved for 1 hour of continuing nursing education. Educational Review Systems is an approved accreditor of continuing nursing education by the Alabama State Nursing Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Provider # 5-115.
Educational Review Systems is also approved for nursing continuing education by the state of California, the state of Florida and the District of Columbia.
Educational Review Systems is an approved provider by P.A.C.E. This program is approved for 1 hour of CE credit.
This program has been approved for one (1.0) contact hour Continuing Respiratory Care Education (CRCE) credit by the American Association for Respiratory Care, 9425 N. MacArthur Blvd., Suite 100, Irving, TX 75063. Course # 147782000.
Florida practitioners will need to self-report credits for this program to their CE Broker profile.
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Expiration Date: February 28, 2021
Maximum Credit Hours: 1.0
DOWNLOADS
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Mitchell M. Levy MD is Chief, Division of Critical Care, Pulmonary, and Sleep Medicine and Professor of Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is also Medical Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island. Dr. Levy is a founding member (2002) and a member of the Executive Committee of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign, a global initiative to improve the care of patients with severe sepsis. He is the lead investigator for Phase III of the campaign, the goal of which is to facilitate adoption of evidence-based guidelines for sepsis management into clinical practice and reduce mortality in severe sepsis by 25% by 2009. Dr. Levy is
Past-President of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (2009). Dr. Levy’s current research interests include biomarkers in sepsis, end-of-life care in the ICU, and knowledge translation. He has authored over 130 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is the co-director of the Ocean State Clinical Coordinating Center, which manages large, international, multi-center clinical trials in sepsis. Dr. Levy is very active in the field of quality and safety. He continues to serve as the representative to the National Quality Forum for SCCM and also serves on the advisory committees on Quality for the Blue Distinction program of Blue Cross Blue Shield of America. Dr. Levy has worked on several state-wide initiatives on quality, including Rhode Island and New Jersey, and has led a similar initiative for the New York City Health and Hospital Corporation in their quality initiative in catheter-related bloodstream infection and sepsis. He was recently appointed a content expert and voting member of the Hospital Workgroup of the Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) of the National Quality Forum and serves as a technical expert for the project Closing the Quality Gap: Prevention of Healthcare-associated Infections, which is part of the Evidence-Based Practice Center (EPC) program of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Dr. Fan is the Director of Clinical Chemistry at Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts. She
received her doctoral degree in Clinical/Bioanalytical Chemistry in Cleveland, Ohio, and then completed her clinical fellowship at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Maryland. She was the Assistant Director of Chemistry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and also held an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School. Her research interest is focused on biomarkers in disease diagnosis.
Patti is Clinical Director of Respiratory Care Services at Northwestern Medicine, Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield, Illinois. She has 34 years of experience in Respiratory Care. Patti has been involved in projects and clinical work in all patient care areas. She has developed and implemented several protocols, including ventilator-acquired pneumonia prevention in the NICU, PICU and in two adult ICUs. Additional protocols include age-specific respiratory assessment protocols, oxygen titration protocol and ventilator weaning protocol that includes mobility. She has published and presented her work on both ventilator-acquired pneumonia reduction and ventilator weaning with early mobility. She has also presented her work on multidisciplinary collaborations which have led to improved patient outcomes.
Alex is a board certified clinical nurse specialist and acute care nurse practitioner with a master’s degree from Rush University. He has 18 years of critical care experience, including time as an ICU staff nurse, clinical nurse specialist, CV surgery APN, and currently serves as a critical care clinical nurse specialist at Northwestern Medicine, Central DuPage Hospital, a unit with an AACN Beacon Award for Excellence - Gold designation. He is the 2004 and 2005 winner of AACN’s educational advancement scholarship, has been published in journals such as Critical Care Nurse, the Journal of Radiology Nursing, Nursing 2011 – Critical Care, Critical Care Connections, Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, Critical Care Medicine, Annals of the Academy of Medicine - Singapore, and is a contributing author for a number of critical care nursing certification textbooks. Alex’s work on stroke volume optimization was featured in the November 2010 issue of
Advance for Nurses and in the February 2015 cover issue of Critical Care Nurse. His sepsis program implementation work, which has been replicated in multiple organizations, has resulted in dramatic improvements in bundle compliance (> 50% reductions in mortality).
Alex is a national speaker and an annual speaker at the AACN National Teaching Institute where he
addresses topics such as stroke volume optimization, drip titration, the Clinical Nurse Specialist role, and sepsis.