Surviving Sepsis Campaign: international guidelines for management of sepsis and septic shock: 2021.

Laura Evans; Andrew Rhodes; Waleed Alhazzani; Massimo Antonelli; Craig M. Coopersmith; Craig French; Flávia R. Machado; Lauralyn Mcintyre; Marlies Ostermann; Hallie C. Prescott; Christa Schorr; Steven Simpson; W. Joost Wiersinga; Fayez Alshamsi; Derek C. Angus; Yaseen Arabi; Luciano Azevedo; Richard J. Beale; Gregory Beilman; Emilie Belley-Cote; Lisa Burry; Maurizio Cecconi; John Eugenio Centofanti; Angel Coz Yataco; Jan De Waele; R. Phillip Dellinger; Kent Doi; Bin Du; Elisa Estenssoro; Ricard Ferrer; Charles Gomersall; Carol S. Hodgson; Morten Hylander Møller; Theodore John Iwashyna; Shevin Jacob; Ruth Kleinpell; Michael Klompas; Younsuck Koh; Anand Kumar; Arthur Kwizera; Suzana Lobo; Henry Masur; Steven McGloughlin; Sangeeta Mehta; Yatin Mehta; Mervyn Mer; Mark E. Nunnally; Simon Oczkowski; Tiffany M. Osborn; Elizabeth Papathanassoglou; Anders Perner; Michael Puskarich; Jason Roberts; William D. Schweickert; Maureen Seckel; Jonathan E. Sevransky; Charles L. Sprung; Tobias Welte; Janice Zimmerman; Mitchell M. Levy

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Surviving Sepsis Campaign: international guidelines for management of sepsis and septic shock: 2021.

November 21, 2021

Evans L, Rhodes A, Alhazzani W, et al. Crit Care Med. 2021;49(11):e1063-e1143.

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This guideline reviews recommendations and best-practice statements from an international consensus committee on sepsis treatment and management to guide safe care for patients with sepsis or septic shock.

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