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Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 7/2020

01-07-2020 | Septicemia | Editorial

Focus on sepsis

Authors: Julie Helms, Anders Perner

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 7/2020

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Despite extensive research and several thousands of publications each year, sepsis remains a major challenge to patients, clinicians and healthcare systems globally [1]. In this context, recent research provided new insights aiming at improving care of these patients (Fig. 1).
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Metadata
Title
Focus on sepsis
Authors
Julie Helms
Anders Perner
Publication date
01-07-2020
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 7/2020
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-020-06038-x

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