Sepsis Management in Resource-limited Settings - 9783030031428

Sepsis Management in Resource-limited SettingsAuthor(s): Arjen M. Dondorp, Martin W. Dnser, Marcus J. Schultz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG\nISBN-13: 9783030031428, 978-3030031428\nSynopsis\nThis book is open access under a CC BY [url] license. It constitutes a unique source of knowledge and guidance for all healthcare workers who care for patients with sepsis and septic shock in resource-limited settings.\n\nMore than eighty percent of the worldwide deaths related to sepsis occur in resource-limited settings in low and middle-income countries. Current international sepsis guidelines cannot be implemented without adaptations towards these settings, mainly because of the difference in local resources and a different spectrum of infectious diseases causing sepsis. This prompted members of the Global Intensive Care working group of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine(ESICM) and the Mahidol-O.