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Obs-TIVA UK was a prospective, multicentre service evaluation investigating the use of TIVA in Obstetrics. It recruited patients from November 2022 to June 2023. There were 104 patients who underwent caesarean delivery under TIVA and 19 patients had TIVA for other reasons. Further prospective research is required to investigate the impact of obstetric TIVA on maternal and neonatal outcomes and inform best practice recommendations. Published in Anaesthesia Reports.

Objective of this study was to compare the performance of Sequential Organ Failure Assessment, systemic inflammatory response syndrome, Red Flag Sepsis, and National Institute of Clinical Excellence sepsis risk stratification tools in the identification of patients at greatest risk of mortality from sepsis in nonintensive care environments. Our data suggest that the sepsis risk stratification tools currently utilized in emergency departments and on the general wards do not predict mortality adequately. Published in Critical Care Explorations.

The ‘Sepsis Six’ bundle was promoted as a deliverable tool outside of the critical care settings, but there is very little data available on the progress and change of sepsis care outside the critical care environment in the UK. Our data suggests that despite efforts to increase sepsis awareness within the NHS, there is poor compliance with the sepsis care bundles and no change in the high mortality over the study period.

This article aimed to identify the prevalence of acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure (AHRF) in the intensive care unit (ICU) and its associated mortality.

This recent publication combines the findings and data of three years of national sepsis audits to draw insights into the patterns of antimicrobial use and microbiology investigations. Full article available at the Journal of Clinical Medicine.

Full publication available here: Medicine Journal The WDDCP was used to collect the data that led to this publication in Medicine. It identifies when using the Red-flag sepsis criteria compared to SOFA, the tools captured different subsets of the at-risk population, with similar sensitivity. SOFA…

The first publication using combined data from both 2016 and 2017 Sepsis Study projects, this publication reports on the sepsis-attributable fraction of mortality. Open access is available, click here to read more

The 2016 sepsis study has successfully reached its first major output today through publication of a comparison between two sepsis definitions in Anaesthesia. You can read the full abstract on the website.

We are incredibly proud that WDDCP has completed registration as a non-profit organisation with the Charity Commission in England and Wales with registration number 1175771. We are also very happy that Miss Maja Kopczynska has joined as a trustee for the organisation after being sepsis…