Clinician preferences for prescription of corticosteroids in patients with septic shock: an international survey

Naomi E Hammond^{1

2

3}, Ashwani Kumar¹, Bharath Kumar Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan^{4

5}, Yaseen M Arabi⁶, Jeremy Cohen^{1

7

8

9}, Gian Luca Di Tanna^{1

3}, Sarah Grattan¹, Vernon van Heerden¹⁰, Gavin Joynt¹¹, Flavia R Machado^{12

13}, Anders Perner^{14

15}, Andrew Rhodes^{16

17}, Tony Yeh¹⁸, Balasubramanian Venkatesh^{1

8

19}

Affiliations

¹ Critical Care Division, George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
² Malcolm Fisher Department of Intensive Care, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
³ Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁴ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Apollo Main Hospital, Chennai, India.
⁵ George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, India.
⁶ Intensive Care Department, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences and King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
⁷ Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
⁸ Wesley Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
⁹ University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
¹⁰ General Intensive Care Unit, Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem.
¹¹ Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
¹² Intensive Care Anesthesiology, Pain and Intensive Care Department, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
¹³ Latin America Sepsis Institute, Säo Paulo, Brazil.
¹⁴ Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
¹⁵ University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
¹⁶ St George's Hospital, London, UK.
¹⁷ St George's, University of London, London, UK.
¹⁸ Department of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
¹⁹ Intensive Care, Princess Alexandria Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

PMID: 38045527
PMCID: PMC10692536
DOI: 10.51893/2021.2.s1

Clinician preferences for prescription of corticosteroids in patients with septic shock: an international survey

Naomi E Hammond et al. Crit Care Resusc. 2023.

. 2023 Oct 18;23(2):234-238.

doi: 10.51893/2021.2.s1. eCollection 2021 Jun.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Critical Care Division, George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
² Malcolm Fisher Department of Intensive Care, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
³ Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁴ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Apollo Main Hospital, Chennai, India.
⁵ George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, India.
⁶ Intensive Care Department, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences and King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
⁷ Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
⁸ Wesley Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
⁹ University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
¹⁰ General Intensive Care Unit, Division of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem.
¹¹ Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
¹² Intensive Care Anesthesiology, Pain and Intensive Care Department, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
¹³ Latin America Sepsis Institute, Säo Paulo, Brazil.
¹⁴ Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
¹⁵ University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
¹⁶ St George's Hospital, London, UK.
¹⁷ St George's, University of London, London, UK.
¹⁸ Department of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
¹⁹ Intensive Care, Princess Alexandria Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

PMID: 38045527
PMCID: PMC10692536
DOI: 10.51893/2021.2.s1

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