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Surviving Sepsis Campaign
The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) alongside the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) spearheaded the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) in 2002 with several aims including the development of guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and post-ICU care of sepsis and a reduction of mortality from sepsis.
Learn more
The updated guidelines are freely available in Intensive Care Medicine:
Rhodes A. et al. Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016
For more information on the SSC Campaign
please visit the Surviving Sepsis Campaign webpage.
Guidelines & Consensus Statements
Since 1990, ESICM has commited to produce guidelines and consensus statements from international task forces in collaboration with other international societies to provide the best evidence for clinicians at the bedside.
The majority of these manuscripts have been published in the journal Intensive Care Medicine.
Press releases & ESICM statements
ESICM/ICM ANNOUNCEMENT
Publication of Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016… PLUS editorials & video (19/01/2017)
ESICM ENDORSEMENT
EPHA Joint Statement on Antimicrobial Resistance (EU HEALTH POLICY PLATFORM – 11/2017)
PRESS RELEASE
Sepsis-3: New International Consensus Definitions of Sepsis (22/02/2016)
Letter from the President
AHA/ILCOR 2015 Resuscitation Guidelines (04/02/2015)
Update from the ESICM President
Ebola (31/10/2014)
Message from the ESICM President
Mitchell Levy’s son (04/10/2014)
Letter from the ESICM President
Ebola Outbreak in Guinea – WHO call for critical care and infectious disease specialists (31/03/2014)
PRESS RELEASE
Clinical practice guideline on diagnosis and treatment of hyponatraemia published in ICM (25/02/2014)
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