International Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines 2016: the perspective from low-income and middle-income countries
Document Type
Article
Department
Anaesthesiology (East Africa)
Abstract
In the most recent international Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines, Rhodes and colleagues1excellently outline evidence-based management of patients with sepsis and septic shock. Of note, however, is that most of the world's population resides in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), where the burden of sepsis is enormous, outcomes are often poor, and socioeconomic consequences are dire.2 Of the 655 references supporting the new sepsis guidelines, only a few pertain to studies in LMICs (about 10%).
Publication (Name of Journal)
Lancet Infectious Diseases
Recommended Citation
Shrestha, G. S.,
Kwizera, A.,
Lundeg, G.,
Baelani, J. I.,
Azevedo, L. C.,
Pattnaik, R.,
Misango, D.,
Haniffa, R.
(2017). International Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines 2016: the perspective from low-income and middle-income countries. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 17(9), 893-895.
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https://ecommons.aku.edu/eastafrica_fhs_mc_anaesth/16