44317 Vital Signs: Role in Saving Patient Lives from Sepsis

Course overview

Discusses the importance of vital signs to detect clinical deterioration of a patient, and their relevance to clinical practice; identifying at-risk and septic patients through respiratory rate, as well as other vital signs; recognizing the clinical presentation and detection of sepsis with the use of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) criteria; and the proper methods of obtaining vital signs.