Time Is Survival: Continuing Education on Sepsis for Neurosurgical Critical Care Nurses.

Background: Early identification of sepsis among neurosurgical critical care patients is a significant challenge because of the many possible confounding variables that lead to altered mental status in this specific patient population. Nurses' knowledge, attitudes, confidence, and practices related to the early identification and management of sepsis are crucial to patients' survival.

Method: This evidence-based intervention project implemented continuing education for neurosurgical critical care nurses on the early signs and symptoms of sepsis and the management of sepsis according to the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) Guidelines.

Urinary Diversion Disparity Following Radical Cystectomy for Bladder Cancer in the Hispanic Population.

Objective: To determine if disparities in quality of surgical care exist between Hispanics and non-Hispanics undergoing radical cystectomy for bladder cancer.

Materials And Methods: An observational cohort study was conducted retrospectively on patients who underwent radical cystectomy for urothelial carcinoma of the bladder at our institution between January 2005 and July 2018. Data was collected on demographic, clinical, and pathological characteristics of patients, including self-reported ethnicity.