Evidence · Research paper
Implementing Pediatric Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines: Improving Compliance With Lactate Measurement in the PICU.
- Education and simulation
- Infection and sepsis
- Medical
- Nursing
- Professional practice
- Sepsis
- Shock
Summary
A single-centre quality improvement initiative in a 26-bed quaternary PICU aimed at improving compliance with the 2020 paediatric Surviving Sepsis Campaign recommendation to measure lactate within the first hour of resuscitation for PICU-onset severe sepsis/shock. Interventions included a multidisciplinary sepsis improvement team, targeted education of frontline prescribers and peer-to-peer nursing education with stakeholder feedback. Over 166 sepsis events, compliance and time to first lactate improved across successive Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles. Illustrates practical implementation and behaviour-change strategies for embedding sepsis guidance in PICU practice.
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