NEWS & SEPSIS SCREENING description

This app is a collaboration between NHS Education for Scotland (NES) and the Scottish Patient Safety Programme (SPSP) - it provides:

A National Early Warning Scoring System (NEWS) calculator to alert clinicians to the deteriorating patient and acute illness

A Sepsis Screening tool for the prompt recognition and the timely initiation of treatment of patients with Sepsis.

An outline of the Sepsis 6 care bundle for the treatment of Sepsis

An algorithm to help identify Organ Dysfunction, Severe Sepsis, Septic Shock and when to escalate care for the individual patient.