We Have New Sepsis Criteria for Children…Now What?

Sarah B Walker^{1

2}, Justin M Lockwood³, Halden F Scott⁴, L Nelson Sanchez-Pinto⁵, Tellen D Bennett^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.
² Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Section of Hospital Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Section of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.
⁵ Division of Critical Care, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Departments of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.

Editorial

Sarah B Walker et al. Hosp Pediatr. 2025.

. 2025 Jul 1;15(7):e315-e317.

doi: 10.1542/hpeds.2025-008421.

Sarah B Walker^{1

2}, Justin M Lockwood³, Halden F Scott⁴, L Nelson Sanchez-Pinto⁵, Tellen D Bennett^{1

2}

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.
² Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Section of Hospital Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Section of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.
⁵ Division of Critical Care, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Departments of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.

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Comment on

Prevalence of Sepsis as Defined by Phoenix Sepsis Definition Among Children With COVID-19.
Tripathi S, McGarvey J, Montgomery V, Gharpure VP, Kashyap R, Walkey A, Bansal V, Boman K, Kumar VK, Kissoon N. Tripathi S, et al. Hosp Pediatr. 2025 Jul 1;15(7):554-562. doi: 10.1542/hpeds.2024-008161. Hosp Pediatr. 2025. PMID: 40545259

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