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Russell Kerbel

Russell Kerbel

UCLA Health academic hospitalist and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine; Medical Director for Sepsis Prevention at UCLA Health.

Sep 25, 2026

47:20
Is there anything, though, that you just want to emphasize about understanding why a treatment plan might change for one day to the next? Yes,
47:27
certainly.
47:28
Right.
47:28
So, again, it has to do with two things.
47:31
One is, have you controlled the source itself? So an infection may be localized to a urinary tract infection.
47:38
We've talked about a pneumonia, an abscess, an infection of the skin, what we call cellulitis or meningitis.
47:45
And how you get to that, how you treat that, sometimes there could be a procedure, a drainage procedure.
50:10
What kind of sepsis did you have? Correct.

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