Clinical practice guideline on the management of septic shock and sepsis-associated organ dysfunction in children: Endorsement by the Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine

Marius Rehn; Michelle S Chew; Klaus T Olkkola; Martin Ingi Sigurðsson; Arvi Yli-Hankala; Morten Hylander Møller

doi:10.1111/aas.13958

Clinical practice guideline on the management of septic shock and sepsis-associated organ dysfunction in children: Endorsement by the Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine

Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2021 Nov;65(10):1365-1366. doi: 10.1111/aas.13958. Epub 2021 Aug 4.

Authors

Marius Rehn^{1

2

3}, Michelle S Chew⁴, Klaus T Olkkola⁵, Martin Ingi Sigurðsson^{6

7}, Arvi Yli-Hankala^{8

9}, Morten Hylander Møller^{10

11}

Affiliations

¹ Pre-hospital Division, Air Ambulance Department, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
² The Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation, Drøbak, Norway.
³ Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway.
⁴ Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Medicine and Health, Linköping University, Linkoping, Sweden.
⁵ Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
⁶ Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavík, Iceland.
⁷ Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
⁸ Department of Anaesthesia, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.
⁹ Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland.
¹⁰ Department of Intensive Care, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
¹¹ Collaboration for Research in Intensive Care (CRIC), Copenhagen, Denmark.

PMID: 34309852
DOI: 10.1111/aas.13958

Abstract

The Clinical Practice Committee of the Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine endorses the clinical practice guideline Surviving Sepsis Campaign International Guidelines for the Management of Septic Shock and Sepsis-Associated Organ Dysfunction in Children. The guideline can serve as a useful decision aid for clinicians managing children with suspected and confirmed septic shock and sepsis-associated organ dysfunction.

Keywords: AGREE II; children; clinical practice guideline; paediatrics; sepsis; septic shock.

Publication types

Practice Guideline

MeSH terms

Anesthesiology*
Child
Critical Care
Humans
Multiple Organ Failure
Sepsis* / complications
Sepsis* / therapy
Shock, Septic* / complications
Shock, Septic* / therapy
Societies, Medical

Grants and funding

Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine