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. 2026 Mar 23.
doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000007075. Online ahead of print.

Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock 2026

Hallie C Prescott  1   2 Massimo Antonelli  3   4 Waleed Alhazzani  5   6   7 Morten Hylander Møller  8   9 Fayez Alshamsi  10 Luciano C P Azevedo  11 Emilie Belley-Cote  12   13   14 Jan De Waele  15   16 Lennie Derde  17   18 Joanna C Dionne  19   20 Laura Evans  21 Hayley B Gershengorn  22   23 Carol L Hodgson  24   25 Kimia Honarmand  26   27 Jozef Kesecioglu  28 Lauralyn McIntyre  29   30 Mervyn Mer  31 Mark E Nunnally  32 Simon J W Oczkowski  20   27 Bram Rochwerg  20   27 Olurotimi Olaolu Akinola  33 Kwame A Akuamoah-Boateng  34 Laura Alberto  35   36 Derek C Angus  37 Yaseen M Arabi  38 Elie Azoulay  39 Maurizio Cecconi  40   41 Pauline F Convocar  42   43   44 Gennaro De Pascale  3   4 Kent Doi  45 Bin Du  46 Moritoki Egi  47 Marie-Carmelle Elie-Turenne  48   49 Ricard Ferrer  50   51 Alison Fox-Robichaud  52   53 Craig French  24   54 Yonathan Freund  55   56 Michelle Ng Gong  57 Caleb P Hale  58 Naomi E Hammond  59   60 Madiha Hashmi  61 Leo Heunks  62 Theodore J Iwashyna  63   64 Shevin T Jacob  65   66 Michael Klompas  67   68 Arthur Kwizera  69 Murdoch Leeies  70   71 Joanna D Lejnieks  72 Mitchell M Levy  73 Flavia R Machado  74 Marcelo O Maia  75   76   77 Henry Masur  78 Ryan C Maves  79   80 Steven McGloughlin  25   81 Joanne McPeake  82 Nicholas M Mohr  83   84   85 Sheila Nainan Myatra  86 Marlies Ostermann  87   88 Sandra L Peake  89   90   91 Mathias W Pletz  92   93 Jason A Roberts  94   95   96 Regis G Rosa  97   98   99 Robert G Sawyer  100 Christa A Schorr  101   102 Steven Q Simpson  103 Li Weng  104 W Joost Wiersinga  105   106   107 Andrew Rhodes  108 Craig M Coopersmith  109
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Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock 2026

Hallie C Prescott et al. Crit Care Med. .
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