Summary

Sepsis 3-hour bundle compliance and prognosis in emergency department patients aged 65 years or older

Míriam Carbó Díez, Gina Osorio Quispe, Leticia Fresco Quindós, Natalia Miota Hernández, Milagrosa Perea Gainza, María del Mar Ortega Romero


Affiliation of the authors

Área de Urgencias, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain.

DOI

Quote

Carbó Díez M, Osorio Quispe G, Fresco Quindós L, Miota Hernández N, Perea Gainza M, Ortega Romero MM. Sepsis 3-hour bundle compliance and prognosis in emergency department patients aged 65 years or older. Emergencias. 2024;36:179-87

Summary

Objectives.

To analyze 3-hour bundle compliance in for patients aged 65 years or older with sepsis treated in our emergency department (ED) and to explore the association between compliance and mortality.

Methods.

Retrospective observational study in patients aged 65 years or older treated in our ED between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2022. Factors associated with mortality at the end of the episode were also analyzed.

Results.

Data for 190 patients were analyzed; 98 (51%) were men. Eighty-five (45%) were aged between 65 and 79 years, and 105 (55%) were aged 80 years or older. Mortality was higher in the patients over 80 years of age (62%) vs 33% of the patients under 80 years of age (P = .001). Overall mean survival time was 38 days (95% CI, 28-48 days). Cox regression analysis showed that 3-hour bundle compliance was associated with longer survival (HR, 0.56; 95% CI, 0.34-0.95; P = .03). Mean survival in patients older than 80 years was 21 days (95% CI, 13-30 days), and 3-hour bundle compliance was associated with longer survival (hazard ratio, 0.51; 95% CI, 0.3-0.9; P = .02).

Conclusions.

Three-hour sepsis bundle compliance in the ED was associated with longer survival in patients aged 65 years or older

 

More articles by the authors

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.