The course addresses key areas to improve your confidence with understanding what sepsis is and recognising the patient with sepsis. There will be an interactive session on case studies. 

Course content/learning outcomes

• What is sepsis? Definition of sepsis
• Statistics about sepsis in the UK
• News articles
• Who is more vulnerable to sepsis?
• What kind of infection causes sepsis?
• Understanding the pathophysiology of sepsis
• Symptoms of sepsis in adults and children 
• Screening for sepsis
• Early warning score eg NEWS2 score
• Assessing people with suspected sepsis. Using Sepsis tools for example, the UK Sepsis Trust clinical tools 
• NICE guidelines for Sepsis
• Ways to prevent Sepsis
• Post sepsis syndrome 
• Interactive case studies
• Q&A session