Pediatric sepsis without shock
Educational use only. Not clinically reviewed6-year-old boy for calm pediatric sepsis recognition without shock, qualified-care reconciliation, serial reassessment, and active-risk handoff. About 8 simulated minutes.
What you will practise
- Connect the supplied suspected infection, coagulation dysfunction, whole-child state, and qualified-care record.
- Distinguish authored pediatric sepsis from current septic shock while preserving close shock surveillance.
- Confirm ongoing experienced ownership of the supplied evaluation, antimicrobial care, source work, and serial reassessment.
- Review unresolved source, organ trends, alternative causes, and deterioration triggers in parallel.
- After elapsed qualified care, review the fixed whole-child and coagulation trajectory without declaring recovery.
- Hand off infection, organ dysfunction, shock surveillance, pending source work, treatment review, caregiver context, and named owners.
Review and sources
Not clinically reviewed. No clinician has signed this scenario.
- Weiss SL, Peters MJ, Oczkowski SJ, et al. Surviving Sepsis Campaign international guidelines for the management of sepsis and septic shock in children 2026. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2026;27(4):379-434. doi:10.1097/PCC.0000000000003927.
- Schlapbach LJ, Watson RS, Sorce LR, et al. International Consensus Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock. JAMA. 2024;331(8):665-674. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.0179.
Open Sim Lab is an educational simulator, not for clinical use. It is not a clinical decision-support tool, not a dosing calculator, and is not validated for any decision affecting a real patient.