Sepsis: Recognise & EscalateSepsis suspected from infection plus new organ dysfunction, then escalated.NursingSepsis is a time-critical emergency. Suspicion is enough to escalate.1Suspect infectionAny source, including lines, wounds, chest, urine and abdomen.2Look for new dysfunctionConfusion, low BP, high or low temperature, fast rate, low output.3Say the wordEscalate explicitly as possible sepsis, with a time and a name.4Prepare the bundleCultures, lactate, access, fluids, oxygen, antimicrobials, output.5ReassessFrequent observations; report any failure to improve promptly.Educational reference. Screening tools, bundles and timings differbetween institutions and are revised often — your local sepsis protocolSepsis: Recognise & Escalatelearnposters.com
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Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate, step by step

Sepsis is a time-critical emergency. Suspicion is enough to escalate.

  1. Suspect infectionAny source, including lines, wounds, chest, urine and abdomen.
  2. Look for new dysfunctionConfusion, low BP, high or low temperature, fast rate, low output.
  3. Say the wordEscalate explicitly as possible sepsis, with a time and a name.
  4. Prepare the bundleCultures, lactate, access, fluids, oxygen, antimicrobials, output.
  5. ReassessFrequent observations; report any failure to improve promptly.

Educational reference. Screening tools, bundles and timings differ between institutions and are revised often — your local sepsis protocol governs.

Questions about the Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate poster

What’s on the Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate poster?
5 numbered steps. Sepsis is a time-critical emergency. Suspicion is enough to escalate. Suspect infection — Any source, including lines, wounds, chest, urine and abdomen.; Look for new dysfunction — Confusion, low BP, high or low temperature, fast rate, low…; Say the word — Escalate explicitly as possible sepsis, with a time and a name.; Prepare the bundle — Cultures, lactate, access, fluids, oxygen, antimicrobials, output.; Reassess — Frequent observations; report any failure to improve promptly.. Educational reference. Screening tools, bundles and timings differ between institutions and are revised often — your local sepsis protocol governs.
Who is the Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate poster for?
Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate belongs to the Nursing section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning medical-surgical can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate poster?
The nursing contribution is speed: notice, say the word sepsis, and escalate. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate?
Chest Pain: Recognise & Escalate, Acute Kidney Injury & CKD and COPD & Asthma sit alongside Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate in the Nursing section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Chest Pain: Recognise & EscalateAcute Kidney Injury & CKDCOPD & Asthma
Is the Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate poster free to download and print?
Yes. Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Nursing section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
What size does the Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate poster print at?
Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate loses nothing.Printing guide

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