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The question should be why was he trying to disregard the orders that were part of the standard protocol for a possible sepsis situation - just accept them all
by NetMageSCW 1y ago
The question should be why was he trying to disregard the orders that were part of the standard protocol for a possible sepsis situation - just accept them all as intended.
- benlivengood 1y agoThe system was poorly designed; as pointed out elsewhere: ordering antibiotics before lab results come back is a bad practice. However, the particular sepsis popup required antibiotics to be ordered, and lab results hadn't come back yet, but another procedure (x-ray) needed to be ordered immediately.
- Fomite 1y agoPeople dramatically underestimate how much sepsis protocols and antibiotic stewardship are in tension.