Hospitals Work to Better Spot Deadly Sepsis in Kids

Marnie Doubek, MD, primary care doctor, Maplewood, NJ.

Niranjan Kissoon, MD, professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine, University of British Columbia; vice chair,  Global Alliance for Sepsis; Sepsis Alliance advisory board member, Vancouver, Canada.

Lauren Hess, MD, pediatric counselor, Texas Children’s Hospital; co-lead, Sepsis Quality Improvement Project, Houston.

Terri Brown, registered nurse; clinical specialist, quality & safety, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston.

Michael Bell, MD, chief of critical care medicine, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, D.C.

Charles Macias, MD, chief, division of pediatric emergency medicine, University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, OH.

Sepsis Alliance.

Children’s Hospital Association.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

CDC.

National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

Health Affairs: “Preventing Sepsis By Reimagining Systems And Engaging Patients.”

JAMA Pediatrics: “Cost of Pediatric Severe Sepsis Hospitalizations.”