The new sepsis consensus definitions: the good, the bad and the ugly

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2024-2026

  Sprung, Charles L ^a,b,c   Schein, Roland M H ^a,b,c   Balk, Robert A ^a,b,c  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; LACTIC ACID;

CONSENSUS; EARLY INTERVENTION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEQUENTIAL ORGAN FAILURE ASSESSMENT SCORE; ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORE;

CONSENSUS; HUMANS; ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORES; SEPSIS;

EID: 84994319469     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-016-4604-0     Document Type: Editorial

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