A new toolkit from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and The UK Sepsis Trust has been developed to help doctors recognise and treat sepsis on acute care wards.
Patients admitted to hospital with severe sepsis are five times more likely to die from this than those admitted with a heart attack or stroke, and it causes 37,000 deaths in the UK each year. Often, sepsis is not recognised quickly enough and patients are not given antibiotics and other treatment in time to save lives.
The toolkit is the ninth in the RCP series of Acute Care Toolkits, and also forms part of a suite of toolkits organised by The UK Sepsis Trust that cover the care of patients with sepsis in a wide variety of clinical settings. Visit: www.rcplondon.ac.uk/ resources/acute-care-toolkit-9-sepsis
