Welcome to the July 2022 Edition of Sepsis Chatter! Our newest video presentation is titled: Sepsis Chatter- Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock Exclusions: COVID-19, Administrative Contraindication to Care, Directive for Comfort Care, and Palliative Care. This presentation begins with a review of the current CMS abstraction guidance to determine if an encounter is excluded due to one of the following scenarios: Documentation that Covid-19 is diagnosed…

Welcome to the June 2022 Edition of Sepsis Chatter! Our newest video presentation is titled: “Severe Sepsis, Septic Shock and Infection: Abstracting the Earliest Documented Time from One Provider Note”  This presentation begins with a review of determining when severe sepsis is present using provider documentation only and severe sepsis present met by clinical criteria. In addition, we will review the four common challenges related to…

Our newest video for the May 2022 edition of Sepsis Chatter is titled: “Sepsis Chatter- Initial Lactate Collection & Results and Repeat Lactate Collection”. This presentation begins with an overview of the rationale for collecting lactate levels in patients with sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock. Next we will focus on our three topics of interest individually: Initial Lactate Collection, Lactate Results, and Repeat Lactate Collection….

The Registry Partners Quality Team is excited to announce a new series of educational videos called: “Sepsis Chatter”. Sepsis Chatter will consist of one 5-10 minute video presentation that is published monthly to address the challenging topics and new guidance related to Sepsis Core Measure abstraction. Our video for the April Sepsis Chatter focuses on the presentation of severe sepsis met by clinical criteria and when…