The death of pregnant mother could have been prevented if she was given antibiotics at the correct time by a doctor, an inquest has found. Melbourne-based Annie O’Brien, 37, passed away due to a fatal sepsis infection in August 2017. ...
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Commission launches two supportive tools to boost sepsis detection
The Commission has released two new quality improvement tools to help healthcare services implement the Sepsis Clinical Care Standard launched earlier this year. The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care released the Sepsis Clinical Care Standard in June to ...
More »Ask yourself: could it be sepsis? Opinion
Sepsis is a life-threatening and time-critical medical emergency with long-ranging consequences for patients that survive. This is the message set out in the Sepsis Clinical Care Standard (the Standard), recently released by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in ...
More »National approach to sepsis needed: researchers
Academics are calling for a national approach to sepsis detection, after new research discovered that an internationally recommended early detection system for sepsis proves less effective than the Australian alternative. Statistics show that Sepsis kills more than 5,000 people each ...
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