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01-12-2021 | Septicemia | Editorial
Equilibrating SSC guidelines with individualized care
Authors:
Jean-Louis Vincent, Mervyn Singer, Sharon Einav, Rui Moreno, Julia Wendon, Jean-Louis Teboul, Jan Bakker, Glenn Hernandez, Djillali Annane, Angélique M. E. de Man, Xavier Monnet, V. Marco Ranieri, Olfa Hamzaoui, Jukka Takala, Nicole Juffermans, Jean-Daniel Chiche, Sheila N. Myatra, Daniel De Backer
Published in:
Critical Care
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Issue 1/2021
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Excerpt
Sepsis is a major cause of death worldwide, not least because complex interventions need to be provided within a short window of opportunity. Evidence-based guidelines for the treatment of sepsis are therefore welcome, providing a common ground for all clinicians involved in decision-making regardless of their expertise. Such guidelines should therefore serve as an overarching reference document. As previously stated, ‘
Guidelines are the product of an explicit, systematic approach to the evaluation and synthesis of available information on a particular clinical topic. They are not a compilation of truths, but are a summary of what is accepted by the authors as the best available evidence at that time’ [
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