SURVIVING SEPSIS CAMPAIGN GUIDELINES
Current Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guideline Sponsors (as of November 12, 2010)
As the 2008 guidelines undergo review and revision, the following organizations are represented in the process:
• American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
• American College of Chest Physicians
• American College of Emergency Physicians
• Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society
• Asia Pacific Association of Critical Care Medicine
• American Thoracic Society
• Brazilian Society of Critical Care(AIMB)
• Canadian Critical Care Society
• Emirates Intensive Care Society
• European Respiratory Society
• European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
• European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
• European Society of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care
• German Sepsis Society
• Infectious Diseases Society of America
• Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine
• Japanese Association for Acute Medicine
• Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine
• Latin American Sepsis Institute
• Pan Arab Critical Care Medicine Society
• Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators
• Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
• Society of Critical Care Medicine
• Society of Hospital Medicine
• Surgical Infection Society
• World Federation of Critical Care Nurses
• World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine
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Update regarding rhAPC Recommendation in Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines*
In response to the removal of Xigris® [drotrecogin alfa (activated)], also referred to as rhAPC, in all markets following results of the PROWESS-SHOCK study, the Surviving Sepsis Campaign withdraws its suggestions for use of rhAPC as stated in “Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock.” (1). The study did not meet the primary endpoint of a statistically significant reduction in 28-day, all-cause mortality in patients with septic shock.
Eli Lilly and Company, the maker of Xigris ®, is working with regulatory agencies on this withdrawal, and is in the process of notifying healthcare professionals and clinical trial investigators. According to their news release, physicians should not initiate treatment with Xigris in new patients and should stop ongoing treatment.
1. Dellinger RP, Levy MM, Carlet JM, et al. Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock. Crit Care Med 2008; [published correction appears in Crit Care Med 2008; 36:1394-1396] 36:296-327
*This revised recommendation was approved by the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Executive Committee and posted on the SSC website and list-serve on October 27, 2011.
Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock 2008.
Dellinger RP, Levy MM, Carlet JM, et al. Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock. Crit Care Med 2008; [published correction appears in Crit Care Med 2008; 36:1394-1396] 36:296-327
Surviving Sepsis Campaign Statement on Glucose Control in Severe Sepsis (June 2009)
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- Pocket guide 2008 guidelines US format
- Poster 2008 guidelines US format
- Pocket guide 2008 guidelines provided by ESICM
- Poster 2008 guidelines proviced by ESICM
Guidelines: Neonate and Pediatric
Clinical practice parameters for hemodynamic support of pediatric and neonatal patients in septic shock: 2007 update from the American College of Critical Care Medicine. Crit Care Med. 2009;37(2):666-668.
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