In this section :

  • Hospital harm is everyone’s concern
    • Hospital Harm Improvement Resource
      • How to Use the Hospital Harm Measure for Improvement
      • Learning from Harm
      • General Patient Safety Quality Improvement and Measurement Resources
      • Hypoglycemia: Introduction
      • Aspiration Pneumonia: Introduction
      • Delirium: Introduction
      • Infusion, Transfusion and Injection Complications: Introduction
      • Medication Incidents: Introduction
      • Obstetric Hemorrhage: Introduction
      • Patient Trauma: Introduction
      • Pneumonia: Introduction
      • Pneumothorax: Introduction
      • Post Procedural Infections: Introduction
      • Pressure Ulcer: Introduction
      • Sepsis: Introduction
      • UTI: Introduction
      • Venous Thromboembolism: Introduction
      • Wound Disruption: Introduction
      • Obstetric Trauma: Introduction
      • Procedure-Associated Shock: Introduction
      • Selected Serious Events: Introduction
      • Electrolyte and Fluid Imbalance: Introduction
      • Anemia – Hemorrhage (Health Care / Medication Associated Condition): Introduction
      • Anemia – Hemorrhage (Procedure-Associated Conditions): Introduction
      • Birth Trauma: Introduction
      • Device Failure: Introduction
      • Infections due to Clostridium difficile, MRSA or VRE: Introduction
      • Laceration: Introduction
      • Retained Foreign Body: Introduction
      • Viral Gastroenteritis: Introduction
      • Hospital Harm Figure 1 Transcript

Procedure-Associated Shock: Success Stories

Surviving Sepsis

In April 2008, a 70-year-old independent lady with no previous comorbidities became a grandmother for the first time and was looking forward to watching her family grow-up. She developed a cough' became breathless and presented to her local hospital. She was admitted and developed severe sepsis and septic shock secondary to her community-acquired pneumonia; she died within seven hours. Her sepsis was not recognized, and antibiotics and fluids were not given in a timely manner. The patient's family and the well-meaning and competent medical and nursing team were devastated.

So begins the account of a real patient story that compelled Dr. Matt Inada-Kim and colleagues to tackle the problem of managing sepsis within their practice (Patient Stories, 2020).

https://www.patientstories.org.uk/recent-posts/surviving-sepsis-a-human-factors-approach/

 

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Procedure-Associated Shock

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Procedure-Associated Shock

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