Improving Sepsis Diagnosis and Management:
The Lab’s Role in Enhancing Patient Care from Arrival to Discharge

A lab’s value is often based on how quickly and accurately it can process tests and produce results. When it comes to patient care, the lab is one of the foundational hospital departments that impacts patients from arrival to discharge. And with so many potential touchpoints, there’s a large opportunity to improve outcomes.

Walk with our experts through a patient journey example—following a sepsis patient through the ED and ICU, until they are ultimately discharged—where we reveal laboratory processes that can proactively provide physicians with lifesaving information in a more timely manner.

Webinar viewers will learn how to identify risk for infection and sepsis using a hematology parameter, monocyte distribution width (MDW) for adult patients in the ED. The presentation includes how laboratories can implement reflex testing to increase bundle compliance with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Sep-1 bundle. Lastly, viewers will learn how to apply these rules and processes to a hospital network environment for better clinical and operational outcomes at all clinical sites.