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OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to:
1. Identify and define Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, Sepsis without Organ Dysfunction, Sepsis with Organ Dysfunction, Septic Shock, SEP-1, and SEP-3. 
2. Explain Sepsis as an Immunologic Phenomenon, and why early intervention is so critical to patient-centered outcomes and why lack of early intervention poses not only mortality risk, but long-term ramifications for those who survive. 
3. Review how to identify and intervene early in Sepsis, and the role CMS and SEP-1 plays in evaluating hospital Sepsis performance. 

FACULTY DISCLOSURE: William Isaac Feingold, DO, FACP, MBA has no relevant financial relationship(s) with companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

PLANNER DISCLOSURE: The planners have no relevant financial relationship(s) with companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

ACCREDITATION: The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

DESIGNATION:  The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ABIM MOC:  Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.0 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

For information, please contact Hillary.Phelan@BSWHealth.org