Pediatric Resources

Pediatric Sepsis

Provincial Pediatric Sepsis Guideline & Toolkit for Emergency and Urgent Care Centres

 The toolkit was created to:

  • Provide recommendations to guide best practice for recognition and treatment of pediatric sepsis, suspected sepsis or septic shock

  • Support standardized practice of pediatric sepsis care across British Columbia

  • Provide parent/caregiver materials when a child is suspected of having, or diagnosed with sepsis

The toolkit contains:

  • Pediatric Sepsis Recognition and Management Guideline for Emergent/Urgent Care Settings​

  • Pediatric Sepsis Screening Tool ​

  • Pediatric Sepsis Clinical Care Algorithm 

  • Parent/Caregiver resources

  • Provider resources to support education and health authority led implementation of the toolkit