Sean R. Townsend, MD, Fellow, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital

      Worldwide 1.1 million people die from severe sepsis each year. In the US severe sepsis affects 751,000 lives each year and the average mortality rate is 29% based on best estimates. Critical proven strategies for managing severely septic patients exist, but are underutilized. Learn how the Surviving Sepsis Campaign and IHI have teamed up to tackle this challenge with a structured hospital improvement program that can save thousands of lives.
      After this presentation you will be able to:

• Discuss key scientific strategies that impact severe sepsis.
• Create a sepsis improvement team and implement the severe sepsisbundles in your institution.
• Describe how to use the severe sepsis database to drive improvement results.