Colleagues, The Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA), the European Society for Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), and the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) released a consensus paper in Intensive Care Medicine recognizing that patients critically ill with COVID-19 have viral sepsis, despite some differences from sepsis caused by other pathogens.
Patients with severe COVID-19 suffer from multi-organ dysfunction, including acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), vasodilatory shock, acute kidney injury, coagulopathy, and impaired brain, heart, and gastrointestinal function; these represent the common clinical manifestations that characterize sepsis. To learn more and access the consensus paper, visit the Surviving Sepsis Campaign website<https://www.sccm.org/SurvivingSepsisCampaign/About-SSC/Contact/Surviving-Sepsis-Campaign-Latest-News>. Lori [cid:[email protected]] Lori A. Harmon, RRT, MBA, CPHQ Director of Quality Society of Critical Care Medicine 500 Midway Drive Mount Prospect, IL 60056 O: 847-493-6403 Join the Campaign listserv: www.survivingsepsis.org<http://www.survivingsepsis.org/>
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