Sepsis Alert Implementation to Improve the Door to Antibiotics Time in Adult Patients in the Emergency Setting

Sepsis is a severe condition in which the body responds improperly to an infection, requiring timely intervention. Reducing the time of antibiotic administration is crucial for improving patient outcomes. By exploring the effectiveness of the alert system and best practices in the literature, the quality improvement project plans to assess areas to expedite sepsis management and enhance patient care among adult patients in the emergency department setting. The quality improvement project will implement a sepsis alert system in the adult emergency department to reduce door-to-antibiotic times from >90 minutes pre-implementation to <60 minutes post-implementation. Database searches included PubMed, EBSCOhost, Google Scholar, National Library of Medicine, and McKillop Library.