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Review
. 2018 Jan 25:13:6.
doi: 10.1186/s13017-018-0165-6. eCollection 2018.

Raising concerns about the Sepsis-3 definitions

Massimo Sartelli  1 , Yoram Kluger  2 , Luca Ansaloni  3 , Timothy C Hardcastle  4   5 , Jordi Rello  6 , Richard R Watkins  7   8 , Matteo Bassetti  9 , Eleni Giamarellou  10 , Federico Coccolini  3 , Fikri M Abu-Zidan  11 , Abdulrashid K Adesunkanmi  12 , Goran Augustin  13 , Gian L Baiocchi  14 , Miklosh Bala  15 , Oussema Baraket  16 , Marcelo A Beltran  17 , Asri Che Jusoh  18 , Zaza Demetrashvili  19 , Belinda De Simone  20 , Hamilton P de Souza  21 , Yunfeng Cui  22 , R Justin Davies  23 , Sameer Dhingra  24 , Jose J Diaz  25 , Salomone Di Saverio  23 , Agron Dogjani  26 , Mutasim M Elmangory  27 , Mushira A Enani  28 , Paula Ferrada  29 , Gustavo P Fraga  30 , Sabrina Frattima  31 , Wagih Ghnnam  32 , Carlos A Gomes  33 , Souha S Kanj  34 , Aleksandar Karamarkovic  35 , Jakub Kenig  36 , Faryal Khamis  37 , Vladimir Khokha  38 , Kaoru Koike  39 , Kenneth Y Y Kok  40 , Arda Isik  41 , Francesco M Labricciosa  42 , Rifat Latifi  43 , Jae G Lee  44 , Andrey Litvin  45 , Gustavo M Machain  46 , Ramiro Manzano-Nunez  47 , Piotr Major  48 , Sanjay Marwah  49 , Michael McFarlane  50 , Ziad A Memish  51   52 , Cristian Mesina  53 , Ernest E Moore  54 , Frederick A Moore  55 , Noel Naidoo  56 , Ionut Negoi  57 , Richard Ofori-Asenso  58 , Iyiade Olaoye  59 , Carlos A Ordoñez  60 , Mouaqit Ouadii  61 , Ciro Paolillo  62 , Edoardo Picetti  63 , Tadeja Pintar  64 , Alfredo Ponce-de-Leon  65 , Guntars Pupelis  66 , Tarcisio Reis  67   68 , Boris Sakakushev  69 , Hossein Samadi Kafil  70 , Norio Sato  71 , Jay N Shah  72 , Boonying Siribumrungwong  73 , Peep Talving  74 , Cristian Tranà  1 , Jan Ulrych  75   76 , Kuo-Ching Yuan  77 , Fausto Catena  78
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Review

Raising concerns about the Sepsis-3 definitions

Massimo Sartelli et al. World J Emerg Surg. .

Abstract

The Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery appreciates the great effort of the task force who derived and validated the Sepsis-3 definitions and considers the new definitions an important step forward in the evolution of our understanding of sepsis. Nevertheless, more than a year after their publication, we have a few concerns regarding the use of the Sepsis-3 definitions.

Keywords: Infections; Organ dysfunction; Sepsis; Septic shock.

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