Developing a New Definition and Assessing New Clinical Criteria for Septic Shock

Shankar‐Hari, Manu; Phillips, Gary; L. Levy, Mitchell; W. Seymour, Christopher; X. Liu, Vincent; S. Deutschman, Clifford; C. Angus, Derek; D. Rubenfeld, Gordon; Singer, Mervyn; the Sepsis Definitions Task Force, for

doi:10.1001/jama.2016.0289

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Developing a New Definition and Assessing New Clinical Criteria for Septic Shock

Published in JAMA • Feb 22, 2016

Authors:

Manu Shankar‐Hari

Gary Phillips

Mitchell L. Levy

Abstract

IMPORTANCE: Septic shock currently refers to a state of acute circulatory failure associated with infection. Emerging biological insights and reported variation in epidemiology challenge the validity of this definition. OBJECTIVE: To develop a new definition and clinical criteria for identifying sep...

Subject

Septic shock

Medicine

Intensive care medicine

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