Developing a New Definition and Assessing New Clinical Criteria for Septic Shock

Septic shock currently refers to a state of acute circulatory failure associated with infection. Emerging biological insights and reported variation in epidemiology challenge the validity of this definition.To develop a new definition and clinical criteria for identifying septic shock in adults.The Society of Critical Care Medicine and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine convened a task force (19 participants) to revise current...