Steve Goodacre, Laura Sutton, Ben Thomas, Olivia Hawksworth, Khurram Iftikhar, Susan Croft, Gordon Fuller, Simon Waterhouse, Daniel Hind, Mike Bradburn, Michael Anthony Smyth, Gavin D Perkins, Mark Millins, Andy Rosser, Jon M Dickson, Matthew Joseph Wilson
BACKGROUND: Ambulance services need to identify and prioritise patients with sepsis for early hospital assessment. We aimed to determine the accuracy of early warning scores alongside paramedic diagnostic impression to identify sepsis that required urgent treatment. METHODS: We undertook a retrospective diagnostic cohort study involving adult emergency medical cases transported to Sheffield Teaching Hospitals ED by Yorkshire Ambulance Service in 2019. We used routine ambulance service data to calculate 21 early warning scores and categorise paramedic diagnostic impressions as sepsis, infection, non-specific presentation or other presentation...
November 2023: Emergency Medicine Journal: EMJ