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Content ArticleStarfish tells Tom and Nic Ray's truly inspirational story of their life before, during and after sepsis which claimed Tom's lower arms, legs and a portion of his face. Heart-breakingly honest and affecting, their story charts the devastating effects of Tom's illness, Nic's heroic struggle to cope and, ultimately, the love and hope that has held their family together in the ensuing years.
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Content ArticleThe RCNi (the publishing company of the Royal College of Nursing) have brought together a selection of their most popular articles on the topic of sepsis from across their journals to inform your practice. Sepsis remains a significant cause of death – it is estimated that 44,000 people die from ‘the silent killer’ every year. RCNi has a wide range of resources available to help nurses improve diagnosis and early management of the condition.
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Patient Stories: Julie’s story (22 August 2013)
Claire Cox posted an article in Patient stories
Julie Carman was involved in a road traffic accident whilst on a cycling holiday, suffering injuries to her face, jaw and legs. After making a good initial recovery and expecting to be back at work within three months – three years later she is still having treatment having experienced two further emergency admissions to hospital due to acute cellulitis and sepsis. -
Content ArticleUCLPartners delivered two breakthrough series collaboratives with 13 acute hospital trusts in the north Thames region to transform the care provided to patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) and sepsis. The aims for the AKI and sepsis collaboratives were to achieve improvements in the recognition and treatment of patients admitted to hospital with AKI or sepsis, as well as to increase NHS staff quality improvement capability across the region. The analysis of over 2,000 AKI and sepsis cases throughout the programme showed that both collaboratives exceeded their aims, and reduced AKI mortality by 47%, and sepsis mortality by 24%.
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Bawa-Garba - Implications and the BMA's response (April 2018)
Claire Cox posted an article in Systems
This is the British Medical Association's (BMA) response to the Bawa-Garba case. Dr Bawa-Garba was taken to the High Court, where a ruling on the 4th November 2015 deemed her guilty of manslaughter of six year old Jack Adcock on the grounds of gross negligence.- Posted
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Community PostSepsis Awareness Month is around the corner and World Sepsis Day is on 13 September. What are you doing to raise awareness of the killer condition, which affects more than 250,000 people in the UK?
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Sepsis screening tool telephone triage for the under 5s
Claire Cox posted an article in Paediatrics
This is a tool for telephone triage/out of hospital for sepsis in children under five years, devised by the Sepsis Trust, aimed at community healthcare workers or carers. -
Content ArticlePresentation by Andrew Brent (Sepsis Clinical Lead, Oxford AHSN & Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) and Bethan Page (Oxford AHSN) in collaboration with Dr Matt Inada-Kim (Wessex AHSN).
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