Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock 2021

Critical Care Medicine - Tập 49 Số 11 - Trang e1063-e1143 - 2021
Laura Evans1, Andrew Rhodes2, Waleed Alhazzani3, Massimo Antonelli4, Craig M. Coopersmith5, Craig French6, Flávia Ribeiro Machado7, Lauralyn McIntyre8, Marlies Ostermann9, Hallie C. Prescott10, Christa Schorr11, Steven Q. Simpson12, W. Joost Wiersinga13, Fayez Alshamsi14, Derek C. Angus15, Yaseen M. Arabi16, Luciano César Pontes Azevedo17, Richard Beale18, Gregory P. Victorino19, Emilie P. Belley‐Côté20, Lisa Burry21, Maurizio Cecconi22,23, John Centofanti24, Angel Coz Yataco25, Jan J. De Waele26, R. Phillip Dellinger11, Kent Doi27, Bin Du28, Jan Bakker29, Ricard Ferrer30, Charles D. Gomersall31, Carol Hodgson32, Morten Hylander Møller33, Theodore J. Iwashyna34, Shevin T. Jacob35, Ruth Kleinpell36, Michael Klompas37, Younsuck Koh38, Anand Kumar39, Arthur Kwizera40, Suzana Margareth Lobo41, Henry Masur42, Steven McGloughlin43, Alejandro Bruhn44, Yatin Mehta45, Mervyn Mer46, Mark Nunnally47, Simon Oczkowski48, Tiffany M. Osborn49, Elizabeth Papathanassoglou50, Anders Perner51, Michael A. Puskarich52, Jason A. Roberts53, William D. Schweickert54, Maureen A. Seckel55, Jonathan Sevransky5, Charles L. Sprung56,57, Tobias Welte58, John Myburgh59, Mitchell M. Levy60
1Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
2Adult Critical Care, St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, St. George’s University of London, London, UK
3Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Canada & Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
4Dipartimento di Scienze dell’ Emergenza Anestesiologiche e della Rianimazione, Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS Rome, Italy.
5Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia USA
6Western Health, Melbourne, Australia
7Anesthesiology, Pain and Intensive Care Department, Federal University of São Paolo, São Paulo, Brazil.
8Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
9Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital, London, England, UK.
10University of Michigan and VA Center for Clinical Management Research, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
11Cooper Health System, Camden, New Jersey, USA.
12University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas USA
13ESCMID Study Group for Bloodstream Infections, Endocarditis and Sepsis, Division of Infectious Diseases, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
14Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
15University of Pittsburgh Critical Care Medicine CRISMA Laboratory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
16Intensive Care Department, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
17University of São Paulo, School of Medicine, São Paolo, Brazil.
18Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK
19University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
20Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
21Mount Sinai Hospital & University of Toronto (Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy),Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
22Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele, Milan, Italy
23Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University Pieve Emanuele, Milan, Italy; Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Rozzano, Milan, Italy.
24Department of Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
25Lexington Veterans Affairs Medical Center/University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
26Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
27The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
28Medical ICU, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China
29Hospital Interzonal de Agudos San Martin de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
30Intensive Care Department, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca, Barcelona, Spain.
31Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, China
32Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
33Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Department of Intensive Care, Copenhagen, Denmark.
34University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
35Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
36Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
37Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston MA; Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
38Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
39University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
40Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda
41Intensive Care Division. Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.
42Critical Care Medicine Department, NIH Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
43Alfred Health, Melbourne, Australia
44Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
45Medanta The Medicity, Gurugram, Haryana, India
46Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
47New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York USA
48Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
49Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, Missouri, USA
50Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
51Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
52University of Minnesota/Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
53University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Departments of Pharmacy and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, Division of Anaesthesiology Critical Care Emergency and Pain Medicine, Nîmes University Hospital, University of Montpellier, Nîmes, France.
54University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
55ChristianaCare, Newark, Delaware, USA.
56Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
57Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
58Medizinische Hochschule Hannover and German Center of Lung Research (DZL), Hannover, Germany.
59World Federation of Intensive and Critical Care, Brussels, Belgium.
60Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island & Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

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