Nursing for women's health
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Although septic shock is rare in pregnancy, it is an important contributor to maternal mortality. A woman in the perinatal period can appear deceptively well before rapidly deteriorating to septic shock. ⋯ When comparing preintervention and postintervention results in women with sepsis, statistical significance was achieved for blood lactate level testing (p = .029), administering a broad-spectrum antibiotic (p = .006), repeat lactate level testing (p = .034), and administering a broad-spectrum antibiotic in women with severe sepsis and septic shock (p = .010). Education and a sepsis protocol using a multidisciplinary approach improves compliance with sepsis bundles, which are a group of interventions that, when used together, are intended to improve health outcomes.