Abstract

PURPOSE: Sepsis is responsible for 215,000 deaths per year and the Surviving Sepsis Campaign was initiated to standardize care and improve outcomes in this patient population. We previously reported on reduced sepsis mortality (CCM 2006, Vol. 34, A2 & A108) in our ICU patients and we hypothesized that the improvement in outcomes correlated with the development of a centralized process for identifying sepsis patients and implementing the sepsis bundle in a more timely fashion during the same time period.

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