[Comment] International Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines 2016: the perspective from low-income and middle-income countries

In the most recent international Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines, Rhodes and colleagues1 excellently outline evidence-based management of patients with sepsis and septic shock. Of note, however, is that most of the world's population resides in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), where the burden of sepsis is enormous, outcomes are often poor, and socioeconomic consequences are dire.2 Of the 655 references supporting the new sepsis guidelines, only a few pertain to studies in LMICs (about 10%).

Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - August 24, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Gentle S Shrestha, Arthur Kwizera, Ganbold Lundeg, John I Baelani, Luciano C P Azevedo, Rajyabardhan Pattnaik, Rashan Haniffa, Srdjan Gavrilovic, Nguyen Thi Hoang Mai, Niranjan Kissoon, Rakesh Lodha, David Misango, Ary Serpa Neto, Marcus J Schultz, Arjen Tags: Comment Source Type: research