Sepsis hysteria: facts versus fiction

Konrad Reinhart^{1

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3}, R D Daniels⁴, D Schwarzkopf⁵, N Kissoon⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine (CCM, CVK), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. konrad.reinhart@charite.de.
² Berlin Institute of Health, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany. konrad.reinhart@charite.de.
³ Institute of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany. konrad.reinhart@charite.de.
⁴ University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK.
⁵ Institute of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
⁶ Department of Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine and Critical Care, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Comment

Konrad Reinhart et al. Intensive Care Med. 2020 Jul.

. 2020 Jul;46(7):1477-1480.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-020-06001-w. Epub 2020 May 4.

Konrad Reinhart^{1

2

3}, R D Daniels⁴, D Schwarzkopf⁵, N Kissoon⁶

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine (CCM, CVK), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. konrad.reinhart@charite.de.
² Berlin Institute of Health, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany. konrad.reinhart@charite.de.
³ Institute of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany. konrad.reinhart@charite.de.
⁴ University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK.
⁵ Institute of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
⁶ Department of Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine and Critical Care, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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