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ForwardSEP-1 Updates: What’s New, What’s Next, and What Matters Most | Achieving SEP-1 Compliance: One Emergency Department's Pathway to Success
Session Descriptions:
This activity includes two sessions from Sepsis Alliance Summit to meet the minimum time requirement for nursing CE credits.
SEP-1 Updates: What’s New, What’s Next, and What Matters Most
Since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) first incorporated SEP-1 (the early management bundle for severe sepsis and septic shock) into its Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program in 2015, it has been a topic of discussion and analysis. During this session, one of the original SEP-1 measure stewards will highlight a few of the SEP-1 specification updates that went into effect for Q3 2022, discuss the ongoing value of SEP-1, provide strategies for targeting what matters most in sepsis and septic shock care, and share his thoughts on the future of SEP-1.
Achieving SEP-1 Compliance: One Emergency Department's Pathway to Success
In this session, attendees will learn about achieving compliance with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) sepsis metric (SEP-1) by examining the story of one academic Emergency Department. Prior to its sepsis initiative, this organization was placed in the bottom quartile on CMS metric compliance. Discover the tools used and the techniques employed to implement the initiative, achieve greater SEP-1 compliance, and ultimately improve sepsis mortality in this case. Learners will be able to take the tools and techniques back to their own institutions.
Target Audience
Nurses, advanced practice providers, physicians, emergency responders, pharmacists, medical technologists, respiratory therapists, physical/occupational therapists, infection prevention specialists, data/quality specialists, and more.
Learning Objectives
At the end of the session, the learner should be able to:
SEP-1 Updates: What’s New, What’s Next, and What Matters Most
- Review some of the Q3 2022 specification updates for the SEP-1 early management bundle;
- Discuss the value of SEP-1 and strategies for targeting what matters most in sepsis and septic shock care;
- List possible next steps for SEP-1.
Achieving SEP-1 Compliance: One Emergency Department's Pathway to Success
- Understand a simple and stepwise approach to sepsis care to increase metric compliance while reducing sepsis mortality;
- Adopt a strategy for improving sepsis metric compliance and further maintaining a high level of performance.
Sean R. Townsend, MD
Vice President of Quality & Safety, California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) San Francisco; Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Sean R. Townsend, MD, is Vice President of Quality & Safety at California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) in San Francisco, California. He is also Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Townsend is a practicing intensivist in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at CPMC. Dr. Townsend led the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) work on sepsis and served on the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) steering committee for many years. Dr. Townsend serves as measure steward for CMS’s national sepsis quality measure, SEP-1.
Nima Sarani, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Kansas University Medical Center
Nima Sarani, MD, completed his Emergency Medicine (EM) residency in 2014 at Oklahoma University School of Medicine. He then moved to Southern California to work full time with prominent EM groups in the region: Kaiser Permanente, Vituity, Envision, and TEAMHealth.
While working in the community, he served on numerous committees but eventually decided to return to academics to complete an EM ultrasound fellowship and pursue his passion for teaching. He completed his fellowship at The University of Kansas Health System where he then joined the EM faculty as the Assistant Ultrasound Director.
He now serves as the Assistant Director of Clinical Operations for sepsis care, and through his work was able to significantly impact sepsis care in the emergency department and the rest of the health system. He is also involved in medical school teaching at Kansas University Medical Center and currently serves as an Assistant Director of one their academic societies.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP17068 for 1.4 contact hours.
Other healthcare providers will receive a certificate of attendance for 1.2 contact hours.
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Available Credit
- 1.20 Participation
- 1.40 RN CE Contact HoursProvider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP17068.