• Curr Opin Anaesthesiol · Apr 2017

    Review

    The new sepsis definition: limitations and contribution to research and diagnosis of sepsis.

    • Franck Verdonk, Alice Blet, and Alexandre Mebazaa.
    • aDepartment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, SMUR and Burn Unit, GH Saint-Louis-Lariboisière-Fernand Widal University Hospitals, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris bInfection and Epidemiology Department, Human Histopathology and Animal Models Unit, Institut Pasteur cUniversity Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité dU 942 INSERM, Paris, France.
    • Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2017 Apr 1; 30 (2): 200-204.

    Purpose Of ReviewBased on recent clinical, epidemiological, and pathophysiological data, a third international consensus conference was carried out to define new criteria of sepsis in February 2016. This review presents the different items of this new definition, their limitations and their contribution to research and diagnosis of sepsis, in comparison with the previous definitions.Recent FindingsIncidence, management, and pathophysiological knowledge of sepsis have improved over the past 20 years. However, sepsis still evolves to a mortal outcome, in one case out of five, with no new recent or specific therapy showing its efficacy on the patient's prognosis. These findings have led to the development of new definition.SummaryThe new definition of sepsis incorporates relevant clinical and biological criteria such as SOFA score or serum lactate levels. It no longer takes into account the items of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome, which present a lack of specificity. It also simplifies the different stages of severity by deleting the term of 'severe sepsis' and by defining septic shock as a subset of sepsis. This definition, endorsed by only two international societies of intensive care, has some limitations and so merits prospective validation at different levels.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…