Cooper University Health Care has led the way in raising awareness of sepsis on a national and international level. Surviving Sepsis Campaign; International Guidelines for Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2012 was printed in the February 2013 issues of Critical Care Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine. R. Phillip Dellinger, MD, Chief of the Department of Medicine, was one of the three founders of the campaign and instrumental in developing the 2004, 2008 and 2013 guidelines which are endorsed by all of the leading scientific organizations in the world who have interests in improving the outcome in sepsis.
Christa Schorr, RN, Director, Critical Care Databases, and Program Director, CCM Clinical Trials, has been the lead nurse on the performance improvement (PI) effort since 2005 and one of three individuals who created the PI program now used around the world. She is also the point person for the revision of the software based on the new guidelines.
As a result of the international campaign, there has been a decrease in sepsis mortality in the last eight years.
To learn more about the Surviving Sepsis Campaign, visit:
http://www.survivingsepsis.org/About-SSC/Pages/History.aspx
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