Utilization of Pharmacist Responders as a Component of a Multidisciplinary Sepsis Bundle.

Background: Sepsis and septic shock remain a significant burden on the US health care system. A multidisciplinary response system (Coordinated Response to Sepsis, CaRTS) that included a pharmacist responder was implemented for patients with newly suspected sepsis.

Objective: To evaluate the time to appropriate antibiotic administration among patients with the CaRTS intervention compared with historical controls.

Interrater variability of a severity-of-illness score in critically ill adults.

Background: Critically ill patients often require sedation and analgesia. Scales have been developed to provide clinicians with sedation targets. Daily interruption of continuous infusions of sedatives and sedation protocols improve patients' outcomes.