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Executive Summary: Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for the 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 Beale
  • , Gregory Beilman
  • , Emilie Belley-Cote
  • Lisa Burry, Maurizio Cecconi, John Centofanti, Angel Coz Yataco, Jan De Waele, R. Phillip Dellinger, Kent Doi, Bin Du, Elisa Estenssoro, Ricard Ferrer, Charles Gomersall, Carol Hodgson, Morten Hylander Møller, Theodore 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 Nunnally, Simon Oczkowski, Tiffany Osborn, Elizabeth Papathanassoglou, Anders Perner, Michael Puskarich, Jason Roberts, William Schweickert, Maureen Seckel, Jonathan Sevransky, Charles L. Sprung, Tobias Welte, Janice Zimmerman, Mitchell Levy
  • University of Washington
  • St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • McMaster University
  • Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS
  • Emory University
  • Western Health
  • Universidade Federal de São Paulo
  • University of Ottawa
  • Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Cooper University Health Care
  • University of Kansas
  • University of Amsterdam
  • United Arab Emirates University
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
  • Universidade de São Paulo
  • University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  • Population Health Research Institute, Ontario
  • University of Toronto
  • Humanitas University
  • University of Kentucky
  • Ghent University
  • The University of Tokyo
  • Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
  • Hospital Interzonal de Agudos San Martin de La Plata
  • Vall d'Hebron Research Institute
  • Prince of Wales Hospital Hong Kong
  • Monash University
  • University of Copenhagen
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • University of Ulsan
  • University of Manitoba
  • Makerere University
  • Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Alfred Health
  • Medanta (The Medicity)
  • University of the Witwatersrand
  • New York University
  • Washington University St. Louis
  • University of Alberta
  • University of Queensland
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • ChristianaCare
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Hannover Medical School
  • World Federation of Intensive and Critical Care
  • Brown University

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Abstract

The Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) International Guidelines for the Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock provide guidance on the care of hospitalized adult patients with (or at risk for) sepsis, based on systematic summary and assessment of relevant literature. This executive summary reviews the history, scope, methodology, and major recommendations of the guidelines, focusing on aspects that are new or different compared with the 2016 guidelines that were published in 2017. Full description of the guidelines process and recommendations are provided in the complete guidelines document.
Original languageEnglish
Article number49
Pages (from-to)1974-1982
Number of pages9
JournalCritical Care Medicine
Volume49
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2021

Keywords

  • Adults
  • evidence-based medicine
  • guidelines
  • sepsis
  • septic shock

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