Pediatric septic shock
Educational use only. Not clinically reviewed4-year-old girl for calm pediatric septic-shock recognition, qualified rescue coordination, serial reassessment, and active-risk handoff. About 9 simulated minutes.
What you will practise
- Connect the supplied suspected infection, qualified care, impaired perfusion, and worsening whole-child trajectory.
- Recognize persistent pediatric septic shock and congestion warnings after individually reassessed fluid aliquots.
- Activate experienced critical-care, vasoactive, monitoring, and access ownership without waiting for central access.
- Escalate source-control evaluation in parallel with hemodynamic rescue.
- After elapsed qualified care, review the fixed perfusion trajectory without declaring shock resolution.
- Hand off shock, source, organ trends, fluid balance, vasoactive support, failure triggers, 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.