title: The Surviving Sepsis Campaign: Where have we been and where are we going?
abstract: The Surviving Sepsis Campaign develops and promotes evidence-based guidelines and performance-improvement practices aimed at reducing deaths from sepsis worldwide. The most recent guidelines, published in 2013, provide detailed management strategies for acute care, fluid resuscitation, and vasopressor use. In addition, the campaign has developed simple, short protocols for what to do within 3 and 6 hours of recognition of sepsis. These protocols are associated with reduced mortality rates.
authors.affiliation: Professor and Chair of Medicine, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, USA.|Adult Health Institute, and Senior Critical Care Attending, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ, USA.|Steering Committee, Surviving Sepsis Campaign, Camden, NJ, USA. E-mail: Dellinger-Phil@CooperHealth.edu.
authors.forename: R Phillip
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Dellinger
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods*; D019468:Disease Management; D005440:Fluid Therapy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D018805:Sepsis / Q000628:therapy*; D014662:Vasoconstrictor Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D014662:Vasoconstrictor Agents