Providence Business News recently featured the partnership between Saint Anne’s Hospital and the Somerset Fire Department to improve sepsis treatment.

Responding to studies that show “patients who receive IV antibiotics on-site from emergency responders have a 15% lower mortality rate than those who don’t receive this treatment until they reach the hospital,” Saint Anne’s and SFD worked to equip first responders with the capability to begin administering IV antibiotics to sepsis patients in the field.

The article quotes Ian Dennen, a nurse and director of emergency services at Saint Anne’s Hospital as saying, “By equipping our EMS partners with the tools and training to act immediately, we are extending the hospital’s capabilities into the field and giving patients a critical head start in treatment.”

Saint Anne’s is part of the Brown University Health system and is based in Fall River. It is training firefighters on how to use high-tech medication infusion pumps, advanced lactate monitoring meters, and other enhanced protocols.