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Intensive Care Medicine
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 12/2016

01-12-2016 | Editorial

The new sepsis consensus definitions (Sepsis-3): the good, the not-so-bad, and the actually-quite-pretty

Author: Mervyn Singer

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 12/2016

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I thank Drs. Sprung, Schein and Balk [1] for airing their concerns and encouraging debate; hopefully I can offer a persuasive rebuttal. …
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Metadata
Title
The new sepsis consensus definitions (Sepsis-3): the good, the not-so-bad, and the actually-quite-pretty
Author
Mervyn Singer
Publication date
01-12-2016
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 12/2016
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-016-4600-4

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