Editorial
SOMETHING ABOUT DEFINITION AND EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SEPSIS
GORDANA CAVRIĆ
orcid.org/0000-0002-1499-5155
; Merkur University Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Zagreb, Hrvatska
KHALED NASSABAIN
; Centre Hospitalier de l’Ouest Vosgien, Pole mére-enfant, Neufchâteau, France
INGRID PRKAČIN
orcid.org/0000-0002-5830-7131
; Merkur University Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Zagreb, Hrvatska
DUBRAVKA BARTOLEK HAMP
orcid.org/0000-0001-8909-6747
; Department of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Intensive Care, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Abstract
The prevalence of sepsis continues to increase, although, thanks to the efforts of the campaigns and the development of guidelines
for sepsis treatment, the fatality rates have diminished, however, the sepsis total mortality is growing due to increased morbidity. Sepsis should be considered as an emergency almost similar to acute myocardial infarction. With regard to the high prevalence and high mortality rate, it is important to improve the defi nition of sepsis. This defi nition is also important in different researches, as well as in the application of the results in daily practice. In January 2014, at the 43rd Annual Congress of Society of Critical Care Medicine in San Francisco, the work on establishing a new defi nition of sepsis was started. New defi nition of sepsis probably would represent what is known today as severe sepsis. The new defi nition could probably be accomplished during 2015.
Keywords
sepsis; definition; epidemiology
Hrčak ID:
151869
URI
Publication date:
27.1.2016.
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