James chats with David Anderson, Advanced ICU Trainee about a patient who has a high temperature and whose blood pressure is dropping alarmingly. What is the approach to sepsis on the wards?
Editor: James Edwards
Interviewee: David Anderson
David in an intensive care medicine fellow at RPA Hospital. His interests include end of life care, medical education and pre-hospital care. In addition to intensive care medicine he has spent time training in anaesthesia, retrieval medicine and palliative medicine and before qualifying as a doctor he worked as a paramedic.
with Dr David Anderson (ICU Advanced Trainee at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, June 2013)
You are called to see a patient who has a fever of 38.9 and their blood pressure is 85/40.
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