Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate, step by step
Sepsis is a time-critical emergency. Suspicion is enough to escalate.
- Suspect infectionAny source, including lines, wounds, chest, urine and abdomen.
- Look for new dysfunctionConfusion, low BP, high or low temperature, fast rate, low output.
- Say the wordEscalate explicitly as possible sepsis, with a time and a name.
- Prepare the bundleCultures, lactate, access, fluids, oxygen, antimicrobials, output.
- ReassessFrequent observations; report any failure to improve promptly.
Educational reference. Screening tools, bundles and timings differ between institutions and are revised often — your local sepsis protocol governs.
Questions about the Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate poster
- What’s on the Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate poster?
- 5 numbered steps. Sepsis is a time-critical emergency. Suspicion is enough to escalate. Suspect infection — Any source, including lines, wounds, chest, urine and abdomen.; Look for new dysfunction — Confusion, low BP, high or low temperature, fast rate, low…; Say the word — Escalate explicitly as possible sepsis, with a time and a name.; Prepare the bundle — Cultures, lactate, access, fluids, oxygen, antimicrobials, output.; Reassess — Frequent observations; report any failure to improve promptly.. Educational reference. Screening tools, bundles and timings differ between institutions and are revised often — your local sepsis protocol governs.
- Who is the Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate poster for?
- Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate belongs to the Nursing section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning medical-surgical can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate poster?
- The nursing contribution is speed: notice, say the word sepsis, and escalate. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate?
- Chest Pain: Recognise & Escalate, Acute Kidney Injury & CKD and COPD & Asthma sit alongside Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate in the Nursing section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Chest Pain: Recognise & EscalateAcute Kidney Injury & CKDCOPD & Asthma
- Is the Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Nursing section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate poster print at?
- Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Sepsis: Recognise & Escalate loses nothing.Printing guide
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